I'm thinking about hiking the Lost Coast Trail in Northern CA. Actually forgot about politics for a few minutes reading up on it. Then this of course:
https://www.wonderlandguides.com/hik...st-coast-trail
Quote:
Last of the Mattole
We know little of the Mattole people, except that they met a violent and tragic end at the hands of European settlers. The Mattole people were nearly wiped from the earth after European settlers arrived.
At the Eureka library, microfilms of early Humboldt Times partly document how this happened: White settlers came to the Mattole area to raise cattle. They named the area New Jerusalem. Initial contact with the Mattole people was friendly, but peace was short-lived.
In the mid-19th century conflicts emerged between the white settlers and the Mattole people. There were murders on both sides. By 1858, conflicts were frequent enough that a peace treaty was established, but it did little to quell the violence.
Between 1858 and 1864 a series of disputes with settlers escalated into massacre of most of the Mattole at the hands of local militias and the army. Many of the natives that weren't killed in fighting were sent to a prison camp in Humboldt Bay.
In 1868 a measles epidemic wiped out almost all remaining Mattole living in the region. Only a few descendants survived. They were mostly children. They grew up with only thin threads of experience in their native culture. The Mattole language went silent in the 1930's, slipping into extinction. There was almost nothing recorded of Mattole culture. Written history mentions little more than how many were killed on what date.
Maybe Trumpism is our true nature as a country and we're just deluding ourselves that it could be any other way. White Christian murderers. Militias + army =
. Bad Hombres on both sides. Those Mattole don't respect property. It's about rule of law.