Severin Films (Blu-ray & DVD) (US RA/R1 HD/NTSC), Image Entertainment (DVD) (US R1 NTSC) Starring John Ashley, Celeste Yarnall, Eddie Garcia, Liza Belmonte Starring John Ashley, Angelique Pettyjohn, Ronald Remy, Alicia Alonzo, Ronaldo Valdez Starring Kent Taylor, Beverly Hills, John Ashley, Eva Darren, Mario Montenegro, Oscar Keesee Starring Francis Lederer, Greta Thyssen, Richard Derr, Oscar Keesee, Jr., Lilio Duran Bloody Island represents the lack of due process under the law and is an example of how the military was apt to administer justice when dealing with Indians.Ĭopyright © 2022 Legends of America.Directed by Gerardo de Leon and Eddie Romero This was an important step because, at the time of the Bloody Island Massacre, there was no recognition of tribal rights in California, and most tribes were therefore unrepresented by the state’s political and judicial systems. Later in the year, Colonel Reddick McKee traveled to Lake County to negotiate treaties and establish the boundaries of the area’s Indian country. Some jumped into the water to flee and some tried to hide on the island, but the soldiers succeeded in overcoming them. Many Indian men, women, and children were killed. The soldiers then fired the cannon, which sent the Indians across the island where they met the rest of the detachment. In the morning, soldiers fired shots from the front to attract the Indians’ attention while the remaining force lined up on the opposite side of the island. The artillery was taken to the head of the lake in order to be as close as possible to the Indians. The two groups rendezvoused at Robinson Point, a little south of the island. Soldiers took the cannons aboard the whaleboats, while the remaining body of mounted soldiers and volunteers proceeded to the west side of the lake. While waiting for the boats and field artillery, a party of local volunteers joined the expedition. Since he could not reach the Indians’ hiding place, he secured two whaleboats and two small brass field cannons from the U.S. Many of the Indians then fled to the island in the middle of the lake where they felt reasonably safe.Ĭaptain Lyon arrived at the lake in the spring of 1850 with a detachment of soldiers. In December 1849, Shuk, Xasis, and three other Indians went to Stone and Kelsey’s place, killed them, and got food for their starving village. They decided to go to Stone and Kelsey’s place and kill them first. The hunting trip failed, and the horses that were borrowed by the Indians were returned to the ranchers, but both Indians feared that Stone and Kelsey would kill them if they found out that the Indians had taken the horses. They could not leave their encampment during the day for fear of being seen and punished by the cattlemen. Their purpose was to bring back meat to the hungry village. Soon after this murder, two Indians by the names of Shuk and Xasis decided to borrow Stone and Kelsey’s horses for a hunting trip. Stone, who was notorious for his mistreatment of Indians, killed a young Indian man who had been sent by his starving aunt to bring her family more wheat. They “paid” the Indians four cups of wheat each day which was not adequate to feed a large family.
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The Indians fled to the island in an attempt to save themselves after five Indians had killed two white men.Ĭharles Stone and Andrew Kelsey had been running cattle and using local Indians as free ranch labor. The soldiers killed a total of 135 Indians, while two white men were wounded. Another 75 Indians were killed on the Russian River nearby. Bloody Island, California derives its name from the Clear Lake Massacre of 1850 in which Captain Nathaniel Lyon, accompanied by soldiers and local white volunteers, invaded the island and killed 60 of the 400 Pomo Indians who had taken refuge there.
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