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José Pacomio Poqui, (born around 1794) better known as Pacomio, was a Chumash revolutionary, carpenter and comissario de policia (Police commissioner) of Monterey, who led the largest and one of the most significant Native American uprisings against Spanish and Mexican rule of California during the Chumash Revolt of 1824. Pacomio's revolt against the Mexican-Spanish establishment was perhaps the most brutal in California's history, and showed the Mexican government that California's indigenous population was not as servile as thought.