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Map of California and where each Native American tribe provinces are located and where treaties with the white people have been made.

Information and letters, to and from the Special Indian Agent in 1855, about the rising unrest between white people and Indians along the Klamath river

Documentation of the legal dialogue between GEO. W. MANYPENNY (Commissioner of the Office of Indian Affairs), Hon. R. MCCLELLAND (Secretary of the Interior), and President Franklin Pierce.

There are five Pomo men in a row all in their ceremonial dress standing in a row. The three men in the middle are Pomo Bird Dancers.

Article describes brutal attacks of Indian Island Massacre. Full text written below.

"Our Indian troubles have reached a crisis. Today we record acts of Indian aggression and white retaliation. It is a humiliating fact that the parties who may be…

This article describes the initial movement of surviving Wiyot members in the aftermath of the Indian Island Massacre. It describes the transfer of a mixed Native American tribal populations around the Humboldt Bay, referred as “Indians of the Bay”,…

Annually, Wiyot members hold a vigil near or on Indian Island in Eureka Ca. The honor those lost in the Indian Island Massacre of 1860. This video depicts the 2006 ceremony being run by Cheryl Seidner, head of the Wiyot Tribal Chair.

In January 1855, miners at Orleans made an attempt to seize guns and ammunition from the nearby Karuk villages of Wopum, Sahwuram, and Panamenik.
Creator: Brian Gleeson

The former town of Kennett was abandoned in 1943, as Shasta Lake was filled after construction of Shasta Dam. American miners built the town on Wintu lands in the 1850's. This Smelter was one of many used throughout Wintu lands. These are important…

Here we can see two Wintu women in western style clothes.