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Remembering and Forgetting Colonial Violence at Shamrock Ranch, Laytonville, California (2024)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "In the Sticks but Not in the Weeds: Diversity, Remembrance, and the Forging of the Rural American West", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Mendocino War, an 1850s genocidal campaign against Native peoples in northern Mendocino County, California, was especially fervent in Long Valley. Here, unauthorized paramilitaries freely murdered hundreds of Yuki and Cahto people between 1856 and 1860. The extreme loss...