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Desperate Raid During A Storm
- Two Pomo ranch hands stole a cow to feed starving villagers and lost a horse in a storm, risking brutal reprisals from their boss.
- Their desperate act and fear of punishment illustrate how dispossession and starvation pushed Native people to risky resistance.
Gold Rush Transformed Power And Land
- Tens of thousands of miners overran indigenous lands within months, transforming local economies and power dynamics.
- What promised riches for settlers produced catastrophic dispossession and a rapid collapse of native lifeways.
Early Violent Confrontations Escalate
- Oregon miners raped Nissanon women and killed resisting men, provoking retaliation and a cycle of violent reprisals.
- This cycle escalated as increasingly armed settlers treated indigenous lives as expendable and lawlessness spread.