Benjamin Madley is a historian who studies Native America. On November the second 2016 Madley gave a talk about the genocide that the Tolowa people experienced.
"BE3"; "Copied from original in possession of, and thru courtesy of, Barbara Charles Eller, 281 E Street, Crescent City, California, 1970" on verso; notes about Aunt Maggie Charlie Seymour on verso || "Taken 1936, tribe Tolowa, Aunt Maggie Charlie…
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Section 1. The sum of fifty-two thousand five hundred and twenty-seven dollars and eighty-six cents ($52,527.86) is hereby appropriated, out any money in the General Fund not otherwise appropriated, for the payment of the indebtedness…
This newspaper article discusses an attack on Indian Island by local white men, resulting in the indiscriminate slaughter of the entire tribe at the rancheria, as well as several “Mad River Indians” passing through. It goes on to address the massacre…