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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…

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 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…

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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