- Mendocino War
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Gila Expedition - Mariposa War - Klamath and Salmon River War - Tule River War - Mendocino War - Pitt River Expedition - Bald Hills War - Owens Valley Indian War - Snake War - Modoc War
The Mendocino War was a conflict between settlers and Native Americans that took place in Mendocino County, California in 1859. Several hundred American Indians were killed.[1] Many young Indians were sold into servitude in the white settlements.
References
Further reading
- The California State Military Museum: The Mendocino War of 1859-1860
- Frank H. Baumgardner III. Killing for Land in Early California - Indian Blood at Round Valley. Algora Publishing (June 30, 2005) ISBN 0-87586-365-5
- Kimberly Johnston-Dodds. "The Legislature's Majority and Minority Reports on the Mendocino War (1860)" in Early California Laws and Policies Related to California Indians. California Research Bureau, California State Library. September 2002
Notes
Categories:- 1850s in the United States
- Conflicts in 1859
- Native American history of California
- Massacres of Native Americans
- Wars fought in California
- Wars involving the United States
- Wars involving the indigenous peoples of North America
- History of California
- Wars between the United States and Native Americans
- Indian wars of the American Old West
- History of Mendocino County, California
- Wars involving the indigenous peoples of North America in California
- United States military history stubs
- American Old West stubs
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