Timeline of Genocide Incidents in the High Sierra Region
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| Appx.* | Date | Number killed
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Location | Source | Source files |
| II | Between February 4, and February 7, 1850 | 1 | Headwaters of the Tuolumne River | Woods, Sixteen Months at the Gold Diggings, 111-112 | http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0114a.pdf |
| III | June 6, 1850 | 5 – 11 | Near “Rattlesnake Creek, formerly Savage’s Camp” | Kip, June 9, 1850 in DAC, June 18, 1850, 2; R.W. to the editor, June 29, 1850 in DAC, July 3, 1850, 2 | http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0689.pdf |
| III | After January 11, but before January 24, 1851 | 23 | “near the North Fork of the San Joaquin river” | Bunnell, Discovery of the Yosemite, 12 | http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0706a.pdf |
| I | After March 19, 1851 | 3 | “well up on King’s river” | Bunnell, Discovery of the Yosemite, 143 | http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0031a.pdf |
| II | April?, 1851 | 1 | Yosemite Region | Cameron in Bunnell, Discovery of the Yosemite, 162. | http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0148a.pdf |
| III | Before April 4, 1851 | 15 – 20 | Yosemite region | Marvin in DAC, April 4, 1851, 2 | http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0714.pdf |
| II | April 27, 1851 | 2 | Yosemite Region | Eccleson, April 27, 1851 journal entry in Eccleson, Mariposa Indian War, 70 | http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0152a.jpg |
| II | April 28, 1851 | 2 | Yosemite Region | Eccleson, April 28, 1851 journal entry in Eccleson, Mariposa Indian War, 71 | http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0153a.jpg |
| II | Before May 15, 1851 | 1 – 2 | Yosemite Region | Bowling to Savage May 15, 1851, in DAC, June 12, 1851, 2; Eccleson, May 17, 1851 journal entry in Eccleston, Mariposa Indian War, 1850-1851, 87; Bunnell, Discovery of the Yosemite, 170 | http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0157a.jpg.
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| II | Before May 15, 1851 | 1 | Yosemite Region | Bowling to Savage May 15, 1851, in DAC, June 12, 1851, 2 | http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0158a.jpg |
| II | After early May, 1852 | 5 | Yosemite Valley | Bunnell, Discovery of the Yosemite and Indian War of 1851, 276 | http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0192a.pdf |
| III | After early May 1852 | 5 | Yosemite Valley | Bunnnell, Discovery of the Yosemite, 280 | http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i1069a.jpg |
| III | April 19, 1863 | 32 – 40 | Wofford Heights, “about ten miles from Keysville” on the Kern River | WOR, 1:50:1, 208-210; Correspondent, April 19, 1863 to Visalia Delta and correspondent, ND to Visalia Delta, April 23, 1863, 2, reprinted in DEB, April 27, 1863, 3 and SDU, April 28, 1863, 2 | http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0999.pdf
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| II | June 11, 1863 | 1 | Kelsey Canyon | Visalia Delta, June 18, 1863 in SDU, June 23, 1863, 2 | http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0543.pdf |
TOTAL ESTIMATED NUMBER KILLED IN REGION: 100-120
*Appendix (Appx.) refers to the reference’s location in:
Benjamin Madley, An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2016.
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Abbreviations used in timeline:
DAC: Daily Alta Californian newspaper (San Francisco)
WOR: U.S. War Department, The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. 4 series, 130 volumes. Series 1, volume 50, part 1 [WOR 1:50:1], etc.
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