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Here is a video taken by a drone giving us aerial footage of what Indian Island looks like today. Footage for Indian Island starts at 2:30. Link is below
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iqGpAuSN9c

Below is Eureka's letter of apology for the Indian Island Massacre also called the 1860 Wiyot Massacre. Below is the written apology by Mayor Frank J Jager, mayor of Eureka from Nov 2 2010 to present.

Dear Members of the Wiyot Tribe:

In…

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”,…

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…