In some accounts of California history, the state's natives were pacifist pastoralists who led an idyllic communal existence before the arrival of the Spanish. This view of history suggests that the indigenous population submitted meekly to the missionaries; active resistance (or at least violent resistance) was a trait learned from the Spanish over several generations of contact. This erroneous reading of history, perhaps motivated by the ideology of the storyteller, could have its origins in the fact that the resistance to the Spanish occupation was not, initially, an organized resistance. Unlike the indigenous groups of the American East Coast or central Mexico, the aboriginal population of California was not organized politically into tribes or "nations" spanning several colonies. The "tribal" names assigned to California's indigenous groups result from modern ethnological investigations rather than being recognized by the natives themselves. For the most part, these modern names represent linguistic groups, as well as reconstructed village names or other geographical names. For example, the Shasta people are named after the mountain, rather than the mountain being named for the "tribe". The mountain itself is named after trapper Peter Skene Ogden, who named a southern Oregon peak "Sastise" in honor of a native guide. In 1841, the United States Exploring Expedition mistakenly applied the name to the Californian volcano. Despite the lack of a coherent political structure, some California natives actively resisted the imposition of the mission system from the beginning. The first uprising took place just six years after the founding of the first mission in San Diego. In the fall of 1775, several neófitos—disconte...... middle of paper... raids never completely ceased, and after 1835 the remaining natives again engaged in banditry. The valley's natives continued to ravage the ranchos until they, too, were swept away by the gold rush. Estanislao left the valley on August 24, 1834 and returned to Mission San José. He prospered there, teaching others the Yokut language and culture, until his death on July 31, 1838. The Stanislaus River and Stanislaus County were named in his honor. According to legend, Estanislao's raids were sudden, usually involving a trap, and ended unsuccessfully. loss of life. To authenticate his work, he sometimes used his sword to cut his initial “S”. In this way, Estanislao may have served as partial inspiration for the fictional character Zorro, an outlaw who defends the people against tyrannical officials, created in 1919 by writer Johnston McCulley..