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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
believed that in the spring and summer of 1852 there could not have been more than six
to eight hundred cattle killed for Nisenan tribes in their county. The cattle that
Mr. Norris delivered to these Indians was observed to be generally poor, light Spanish
cattle, taken from a rancho near Sacramento City and not worth over $10.00-$14.00
per head. Mckee also discovered that the eighty to one hundred valley Nisenan survivors around the City of Marysville (probably the Yuba Tribe in Yuba County) were miserably poor and sick. The two hundred Hocks (valley Nisenan tribe in Yuba County) were’
better off than the Yuba Tribe, but still needed assistance in the winter. In El
Dorado County, immigrants had driven most of the Nisenan Tribes from their old fishing
and acorn grounds to the southern part of the county, on the lower waters of Deer
Creek and the South Fork of the Yuba River, where their acorn crop was in short
supply. 149
The Indians (mountain Nisenan tribes in Nevada County) have only
a temporary supply of provisions and clothing to keep them in
good health during the winter and if you contemplate helping them
at present no time should be lost as their necessities are quite
pressing and in a few weeks the roads leading into their country
may become impassable. 0
Mckee recommended that part of the $100,000.00 appropriated by Congress in the
summer of 1852 to compensate California Indians who signed the treaties of 1851-1852
should be spent immediately for beef cattle to be located on Sacramento Valley ranches
and distributed to needy Nisenan tribes during the coming winter. McKee also. questioned
the accuracy of the State Census which estimated the Indian population of Sierra,
Nevada, Placer and E1 Dorado Counties at ten thousand. 151 (See Bullington's (State)
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Census of Some Indian Tribes Within Placer, El Dorado, Sierra and Nevada Counties, 1852,
p. 65.) Mckee estimated the Indian population of these counties at five thousand.
Most of these Indians signed the Camp Union Treaty and were “peaceable, but generally
living in expectation of some subsistence from their new masters, the Americans .'"152
When the Senate of the United States rejected the treaties of 1851-1852 in
June, 1852, Superintendent Beale proposed that a network of military reservations be
developed for the acculturation of California Indians to the immigrants’ society. 153
There would be no more treaties between Indians and the Federal Government. Beale's