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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…

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.

This source is an online newspaper called The Indian Reporter. Beginning on page 4, the report discusses the "Humboldt Volunteer" program and the "Trinity Rangers" and the effects these groups had on the Whilkut tribe.

Thesis report exploring the events leading up to the Indian Island Massacre. This paper will attempt to
determine if similar cycles of abuse/slaughter/relocation occurred throughout Northern California, or if Humboldt Bay’s massacre was a unique…

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Just West of Clear Lake, the Russian River was one of the sites where Pomo victims of the Bloody Island Massacre fled to escape the United States First Dragoons Army Regiment.

A picture of 18 Pomo school children at a Indian school in Lake County.

Here is a photo of James D. Henry Brown who was named by those in the Wiyot tribe as the main perpetrator and leader behind the Indian Island Massacre. Later determined to be true by historian Martha Roscoe as she states that he lived on a ranch in…

Here is a picture of Austin Wiley, the second owner of the Humboldt Times, a newspaper that still ran in 1860. Wiley preached for the "removal or extermination" of the Natives within the area and frequently posted articles and rewards for their…

Here is a photo of Jane Sam, one of the few survivors along with her family of the Indian Island Massacre. Jane married Alex Sam, a well-known and well-to-do Wiyot from the mouth of Mad River. And in 1921 it was Jane who preserved the history of what…