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rancher E. L. Davis, who had presided at the meeting where the company was formed, wrote Downey just after the massacre, stating that "This company is needed for the protection of lives & property & if we do not get it we will never ask the state again & I for one shall oppose paying any more state Taxes & fight our own battles in our own way-- exterminate the Indians from the face of the earth as far as this county is concerned. In fact, the little mess at Indian Island is only a beginning if we can't get our just protection from state or government that the citizens are entitled to."
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Polly Steve was wounded badly and left for dead, but recovered. One of the few Wiyot men on the island during the attack, Mad River Billy, jumped into the bay and swam to safety in Eureka. Another woman, Kaiquaish (also known as Josephine Beach) and her eleven-month-old son William survived by not being on the island in the first place. Kaiquaish had set out in a canoe with her son to participate with the ceremonies, but became lost in the fog and was forced to return home before the attacks began.
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Wiyot men murdered are believed to have been older men, which is one reason why the Wiyot were largely defenseless. The celebration usually lasted seven to ten days, and the men traditionally left at night for the supplies while the elders, women and children slept. That is why most victims were children, women and older men.
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The Wiyot Tribe said their people were not allowed to return to the island or their other lands. Soldiers from Fort Humboldt took many of the surviving Wiyot into protective custody at the fort, later transporting them to the Klamath River Reservation. They did not leave their former home without any
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There were few survivors. One woman, Jane Sam, survived by hiding in a trash pile. Two cousins, Matilda and Nancy Spear, hid with their three children on the west side of the island and later found seven other children still alive. A young boy, Jerry James, was found alive in his dead mother's arms.
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My father's home was probably the only one south of Eel River that was not notified and its men invited to take part in the massacre on Indian Island and two others near the coast on the same night, Feb. 26, 1860. Pardon reminiscenses. I know whereof I speak. I later served as Superintendent of work
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The killings followed two years of hostility by a group of local whites against the residents of Indian Island, numerous editorials in the local newspapers, and the formation of volunteer militia groups. Hostility had developed between local Indians and the settlers, who let their cattle stray onto
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A review of subsequent communications to Governor Downey revealed the true motive for the series of massacres that included Indian Island. The volunteer company commanded by Seman Wright wanted to become officially recognized as state militia, thereby becoming eligible for state funding. Hydesville
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Blood stood in pools on all sides; the walls of the huts were stained and the grass colored red. Lying around were dead bodies of both sexes and all ages from the old man to the infant at the breast. Some had their heads split in twain by axes, others beaten into jelly with clubs, others pierced or
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Based upon Wiyot Tribe estimates, 80 to 250 Wiyot people were murdered. Another estimate states the number of American Indian people killed at 150. Because most of the adult able-bodied men were away gathering supplies as part of continuing preparation for the World Renewal Ceremony, nearly all the
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The whites then approached, about 6 o'clock in the morning, fired upon and killed three men, who were asleep in a cabin at some little distance from where the women lay, then, entering lodge after lodge, they dirked the sleeping, and with axes split open and crushed the skulls of the children and
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more shocking and revolting spectacle was never exhibited to the eyes of a Christian and civilized people. Old women, wrinkled and decrepit, lay weltering in blood, their brains dashed out and dabbled with their long gray hair. Infants scarce a span long, with their faces cloven with hatchets and
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White settler Robert Gunther gained ownership over the island in 1860, the same year of the massacre. Gunther diked the island and used it as a dairy ranch. It was later used as a shipyard repair facility which led to toxic chemicals contaminating the island. The Wiyot Tribe then regained legal
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resistance. Many Wiyots returned home soon after arriving at the Fort and attacks on White settlements were stronger in areas with sparse settlement of White people. Recently the Wiyot have been repurchasing the land in order to perform their annual World Renewal Ceremony.
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among Indians in the National W.C.T.U. nearly twenty years. By the end of that time I had learned that the Indians of no other state were as poor and neglected as ours. Very truly yours, Dorcas J. Spencer
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tribe, not the Wiyot, so the victims of the massacre would not have been responsible for any rustling. Van Ness ended his written statement by saying he did not excuse the killers for their deeds.
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at the time, reported to his commanding officer that a local group of vigilantes had resolved to "kill every peaceable Indian - man, woman, and child." The vigilantes, calling themselves the
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be mustered into service and given regular pay. Downey refused the petition, stating that the U.S. Army was sending an additional Company of Regulars to Fort Humboldt.
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with axes, knives, and guns. The February 26 attacks were followed by similar bloody attacks on other Wiyot villages later that week in what were part of the broader
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The Tuluwat/Indian Island massacre was part of a coordinated simultaneous attack that targeted other nearby Wiyot sites, including an encampment on the
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Indian lands. Indians used the cattle, and the cattle owners retaliated. On the night of 26 February 1860, a small group of settlers crossed
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a few days later. Though the attack was widely condemned in newspapers outside Humboldt County, no one was ever prosecuted for the murders.
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cut to pieces with bowie knives. Some struck down as they mired; others had almost reached the water when overtaken and butchered.
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were at this time a peaceful tribe. They had never fought with white settlers and were not expecting an attack.
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Rossiter, Charles (2 March 1860). "More of the Humboldt Bay Butchery". San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin.
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Rohde, Jerry. "Genocide and Extortion." North Coast Journal, February 25, 2010:10-17. Electronic version:
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Indian Island Massacre: A Decade of Events Leading to Genocide and Removal of the Wiyots, 1850-1860.
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The Indian Island Massacre: An investigation of the Events that Precipitated the Wiyot Murders.
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The Indian Island Massacre: Place, Labor, and Environmental Change on California's Northwest.
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E. L. Davis, letter to Governor Downey, April 3, 1860, Indian War Papers, folder F3753:568.
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The Bohemians: Mark Twain and the San Francisco Writers Who Reinvented American Literature
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California's Indians: A Clever Satire on the Governments dealings with its Indian Wards
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The massacre of the Wiyot people was referenced by the American alternative rock band
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The local sheriff, Barrant Van Ness, stated in a newspaper editorial published in the
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http://www.northcoastjournal.com/humboldt/genocide-and-extortion/Content?oid=2130748
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women. The total killed on the island were fifty-five, of whom only five were men.
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ownership of the island. They remediated the land and continue to manage it.
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Madley, Benjamin. An American Genocide. Yale University Press, 2016:282-284.
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papers angrily condemning the attacks and naming suspected conspirators.
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Genocide and Vendetta: The Round Valley Wars of Northern California
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Genocide in northwestern California : when our worlds cried
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a few days after the massacre that the motive was revenge for
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Several prominent local citizens also wrote letters to the
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Frank Black and the Catholics – Humboldt County Massacre
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Senior seminar paper. Humboldt State University, 2002.
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in the song "Humboldt County Massacre" on the 1998 EP
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Index

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Tuluwat
Eureka
Humboldt County, California
Wiyot people
California Genocide
California Gold Rush
Wiyot

Humboldt Bay
Eel River
Eagle Prairie
Bret Harte
Arcata, California
San Francisco
cattle rustling
Nongatl
Gabriel J. Rains
Fort Humboldt
Hydesville
John G. Downey
Frank Black and the Catholics
Wiyot Tribe
Henry P. Larrabee
List of Indian massacres




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