Who is Figueroa?
José Figueroa
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`Ladies and Gentleman, the man you’ve all been waiting for!
BRIGADIER GENERAL JOSÉ FIGUEROA!
The year is 1824,
Mexico, needs to populate, California, fo sho,
The Franciscan,
Mission System,
Created to Hispanicize, Native Americans, into Citizens,
Mission system,
Poor conditions,
Destroying traditions, Native American resistance,
1833, Mexican decree,
Missions secularized, land distributed evenly,
His-pan-i-cized Native Americans vs New colonists,
Someone competent, needs to manage this, crisis
Mexico, who can handle this?… the Governah,
Brigadier Figueroa
Half Native American/Half Mexican,
Splitting interest, Figueroa you can trust him
Fairly secularize all 21 missions,
Lead California to a healthy population,
Figueroa Figueroa now we know ya Figueroa Figueroa
Figueroa Figueroa LA Owes Ya Figueroa Figueroa
I Figueroa issue a proc-la-mation.
180 pages of my deliberation,
California guide to Mission separation,
California… this is my equation,
Half the missions to Native Americans,
Half the missions to land grant Mexicans,
No discrimination, no exception, My proclamation, yea,
I know its brazen,,
Figueroa Figueroa now we know ya Figueroa Figueroa
Figueroa Figueroa LA Owes Ya Figueroa Figueroa
1834, two entrepreneurs,
Padres and Hijar … seizing mission land to score,
250 Mexicans, on expedition,
Alta California, their land petition.
Governor Figueroa, puts up opposition,
Argued Native Americans, entitled to this partition,
Plenty of room, in our new nation
Abide by the rules and regulations, in my proclamation,
Figueroa Figueroa Now we know ya Figueroa Figueroa
Figueroa Figueroa LA Owes Ya Figueroa Figueroa
September 29th, 1835,
Brigadier-Jose-Figuerora, died,
A Fair-minded Leader, of California,
Earned himself the LA street, Figueroa,
His proclamation, his manifesto,
Challenged the feudal Lords of the Land Grant Rancho,
Native Americans, he fought for their land,
History Remembers, Figueroa Took a Stand.
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