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A Case Study of a Northern California Indian Tribe - Cultural Change to 1860 (1977) (109 pages)
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Page: of 109
foot print..some seek homes beyond the crest of the Sierra
Nevada, while others have emigrated to the valley of the cS
Tulares (Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys) and the whole ak Y
_. race is fast becoming extinct..those remaining..demand Ned j
renumeration not in money but in food and clothing for their a
land which has been overrun by the whites.
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Immigrants in Placer County formed the "Placer Blades" to attack foothill
Nisenan villages from Auburn to Illinoistown. In one campaign, the "Placer Blades"
found stolen goods at an Indian village (probably Nisenan). Destructionists within
the group argued that the village should be annihilated. Other members thought this
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Indian policy "inhuman": A vote was taken, the destructionists won. This decision p y
set a precedent for the systematic destruction of all foothill Nisenan villages in
the area. It was not until June 1850, that it was again safe for an Indian to be
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seen between Auburn and Illinoistown.
Intensified Indian-immigrant conflict in Yuba and Nevada counties caused
92 King Weimer, seventy Indian deaths between December 1849 and mid-April, 1850.
leader of a confederation of foothill Nisenan tribes in the Grass Valley area, had
instructed his people that it was right to steal from the immigrant when they had
the opportunity. °> Brigadier-General Eastland wrote Governor Burnett of California,
Governor Mason's successor, that these Indian depredations unless stopped would
cause — reaction by the miners. Governor Burnett responded by sending General
Green's peerer of state militia to the lower Yuba River area to investigate and
quell the outrages. On arrival, General Green found a volunteer company headed by
Nicolaus Allegeir, a rancher in the Marysville area, preparing to attack Indians
aie allegedly had been murdering immigrants in the Deer Creek area. General Green
also learned that another volunteer militia in Sacramento City was preparing to
track down and exterminate a hostile force of several hundred Indians (some probably
Nisenan), headed by a white man and some Chilians. . Green combined his force with
Allegeir's volunteer militia and ert Nisenan territory toward the Bear River. 4
During the next few days, he reported seeing recently deserted Nisenan villages and
abandoned immigrant settlements in the Deer Creek, Wolf Creek and Bear Creek areas.
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