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Collection: Directories and Documents > Tanis Thorne Native Californian & Nisenan Collection

A Case Study of a Northern California Indian Tribe - Cultural Change to 1860 (1977) (109 pages)

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The eyes of the 30 states of the Union are upon you and it is for you the 3lst to avenge this insult to the Anglo-Saxon race, and. to show the savage that the American Nation who can dictate terms of peace and yar to every other nation in the world is not to be trifled with. In the fall, 1860, Sheriff Rogers of El Dorado County wrote Governor Burnett of California that Indians (probably foothill Nisenan) in his area had sent off their women and children and had assembled in considerable numbers to kill and rob immigrants 97 Sheriff Rogers was directed to call out two hundred volunteers to punish these Indians) 8poger's company unsuccessfully searched for them in southern El Dorado County, returned to Mud Springs and disbanded. Therefore, the first Indian war expedition of El Dorado County (E1 Dorado I) ended abruptly with considerably different results than intended. The official report does not list one Indian killed 19 Immigrant reaction to El Dorado I reflected a mixed attitude on California Indian policy. . Their (Roger's company) exploits were far from brilliant and were mostly restricted to destroying abandoned rancherias with their food stores of berries..a measure which only drove the Indians to other desperate means of starvation.110 ..although the troops were unable to accomplish any brilliant achievements, owning to the features of the country and the character of the foe, still they performed some hard service, and their efforts have secured peace in the vicinity and protected the wearied emigrants .111 ..the objects of El Dorado I was claimed to be the suppression of Indian insurrection. The truth is that there had not been any outbreak or any probability of one.112 -..some Indians had been killed in the neighborhood of Johnson's ranch..no provocation of the Indians had given cause to such occurrence, but that it had been done with a view to stir up the Indians to commit some outrage or depredation in retaliation, and then have the strongest measures taken against them..the scheme worked..the Indians revenging themselves, killed several miners, {. where upon the settlers and miners eon aac’ in a petition to the: county and State, asking for relief.11 ee i ma Governor Burnett of California indicted the Federal Government for allowing the continuation of Indian-immigrant conflict. a ne ie We have suddenly spread ourselves over the country in every direction and appropriated whatever portion we please ourselves, without consent or compensation. California Indian tribes has if uninterrupted and exclusive possession of the soil. They have pte og 21 i .