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The Yontocket massacre or Burnt Ranch massacre was an 1853 massacre of Tolowa people at the village of Yontocket (Tolowa: yan’-daa-k’vt [1]), northwestern California. One Tolowa man said that more than 450 people were killed in the attack. The massacre was conducted by a "company", a militia organized by American citizens of Crescent City.[2]
At the time of the attack, the Tolowa had been engaged in a prayer ceremony. After the initial massacre, a Tolowa man reported that those responsible for the attack started a bonfire, in which they burned sacred ceremonial clothing and feathers, as well as babies, some of them still living.[2]
Little or no loss of life was reported on the American side.[2]
See also[]
- List of massacres in California
- Achulet massacre
References[]
- ↑ "Siletz Talking Dictionary". http://siletz.swarthmore.edu/?entry=7799. Retrieved 2012-06-04.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Norton, Jack (1979). Genocide in Northwestern California: When Our Worlds Cried. San Francisco: Indian Historian Press. pp. 54–56. ISBN 0-913436-26-2.
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