Talk:1860 Wiyot massacre

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The other article calls it Duluwat Island, not Tuluwat. One of the two is wrong.

Responding to the above: Duluwat and Tuluwat are very similar sounding and the actual pronunciation by the Wiyot people was probalby somewhere in-between. Most whites in the area called it Indian Island, or Gunther Island. The Wiyot tribe's website refers to it as Indian Island. HumboldtHawk (talk) 15:45, 27 June 2010 (UTC)

Tuluwat Village portion of Island
Did not the City of Eureka give the northern tip of the island back to the Wiyot? Or was that purchased? I see the article says the Wiyot have been purchasing their land back in order to perform the world renewal ceremony, but I thought the City had gifted that portion of the island. Norcalal (talk) 06:51, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
 * The City of Eureka deeded 40 acres to the Wiyot North Coast Journal December 23, 2004: "The 40-acre gift, described by Eureka City Councilmember Mary Beth Wolford as "long overdue," consolidates the tribe's ownership of the eastern portion of the 275-acre island. The Table Bluff Wiyots purchased 1.5 acres in 2000, taking over an abandoned ship repair facility constructed around 1870." Ellin Beltz (talk) 07:46, 3 April 2012 (UTC)

Conflicts with Eureka, California
Eureka,_California "Records of early forays into the bay reported that the violence of the local indigenous people made it nearly impossible for landing parties to survey the area." 1860_Wiyot_Massacre "The Wiyot were a peaceful tribe that had never fought with white settlers and had no reason to expect an attack."
 * The book that is cited by Eureka refers to the 1806 Winship encounter with Indians around Trinidad and Humboldt Bay. The Indians responsible for the alleged violence were not named, nor was a tribe name. The alleged violence of the local people in 1806 was given as a reason for not pursuing the fur trade in the area; after - of course - the fur bearing mammals had been reduced nearly to zero by the Russians and their Inuit workers. That was in 1806.  Forty-four years (two generations) later, when Eureka area was settled by whites, the tribe then in possession of Humboldt Bay, the Wiyot "were a peaceful tribe that had never fought with white settlers and had no reason to expect an attack."  Whoever the allegedly violent people were in 1806, the tribe encountered by the white settlers in the 1850s, was not violent.  No conflict. Ellin Beltz (talk) 17:42, 8 June 2013 (UTC)

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