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NCHS Bulletin October 2019
6 Sources include Albert Hurtado: Indian Survival on the California
Frontier. Yale, 1990; William Ellison, “The Federal Indian Policy in
California, 1846-1860,” The Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Vol. 9,
No. 1 (June, 1922), pp. 37-67; George Harwood Phillips, Bringing Them
Under Subjection: California's Tejon Indian Reservation and Beyond,
1852-1864. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004.
7 Henley to Commissioner of Indian Affairs G.W. Manypenny, Sept. 13
and 14, 1854, Letters Received by the Office of Indian Affairs, 18241881, California Superintendency, Reel 33; Hurtado, p. 144.
8 William B. Secrest, “The Old War Horse of the Democracy: The Rise
and Fall of Thomas J. Henley in California,” The Californians (Nov./
Dec.): pp. 25-28; Jones, p. 28.
9 Born in Pine Apple, Alabama, Herbert was a member of the California State Assembly, who died fighting for the Confederacy. Latham,
California governor in the early 1860s, was an Alabama lawyer in before
moving to California.
10 Henley to Manypenny, Sept. 29, Oct. 14 and 16, 1854, Letters Rec’d,
R 33.
11 First hand accounts, consulted for this synthesis, include newspaper
articles from the Grass Valley Telegraph Sept. 29, 1854; Alta California,
Oct. 2, 1854: p. 2, col. 6 and Oct. 4; Nevada Democrat, October 4, 1854:
2, col. 1-2. “By Alta Telegraph Line,” Oct. 2, 1854; the Nevada Journal
Oct. 6, 1854 [by A.A. Sargent]; the Weekly Placer Time and Transcript,
Sept. 29, 1854; and the Hutchings Diary, BANC MSS 69/80c, p. 137-8.
12 James Hutchings Diary, BANC MSS 69/80c, 1848-1855, pp. 137-8.
The journal entry date, Monday Oct. 1, 1854 is an error. Diary photocopied for the Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley courtesy of National
Parks, Yosemite. Original in Library of Congress
13 O.M . Wozencraft and Redick McKee were federal commissioners
who negotiated the 18 unratified California treaties, including the treaty
of Camp Union. McKee was in Nevada County in 1852, following the
rejection of the treaties, to access Indian response. Nevada Journal, Oct.
6, 1854.
14 In 1853, Barbour presided over a famous case in which George
Hall killed a Chinese man, Ling Sing, making a famous speech saying
persons of all races are equal under the law. On appeal (People v. Hall,
1854), Hall was released as, the court found Chinese being “Indians” and
inferiors had no right to testify against white men and no right to U.S.
citizenship. John Wunder, Gold Mountain Turned to Dust: Essays on the
Legal History of the Chinese in the Nineteenth-Century American West.
University of New Mexico Press, 2018, pp. 59-62.
15 Special Agent W.P. Crenshaw to Henley, Letters Rec’d, Dec. 16,
1864, R34. Reprinted by Tanis Thorne, “Indians of Nevada City in
1854.” Nevada City, Sansoucci Pub., 1993.
16 Henley to Manypenny, Oct. 14, 1854, R33.
17 Ibid.
18 Daily Alta CA Jan. 26, 1856; Peterson, A Case Study of a Northern
California Indian Tribe: Cultural Change to 1860.San Francisco, R. &
E. Research Associates, 1977, pp. 41-45.
19 Ellison,“The Federal Indian Policy in California,” pp. 65-66; Jones,
p. 30.
20 “Nome Lackee Indian Reservation, Five Views: An Ethnic Historic
Site Survey for California”; Nome Lackee California State Parks, 2004.
21 For more information see the Rancheria website at https://www.
nevadacityrancheria.org.
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