The date on the Historical Marker, May 15, 1854, is the date of a massacre, not of the "discovery" of the valley by white settlers. Hear the voices of the Yuki, Wylaki and descendants of the murderers discussing the change in wording on micropo
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This is a self-contained broadcast ready radio program. May 15, 1854: What really happened on that day was that thesettlers opened fire and killed 39 Yuki who had come to greet them. A year later the settlers returned and rounded up 30 young women and sold them as slaves to gold miners. Round Valley was set up as a reservation; tribes from places as distant as the Chico area were driven into the valley at gun point. Settlers did not respect the boundaries of the reservation and seized half of it for their farms and cattle range. At the same time vigilante bands of armed men would raid and burn Indian villages.
We were asked if TUC Radio could bring a micropower transmitter onto the reservation to broadcast a community meetingabout re-writing of the historic marker. We set up the transmitter at a local hall on the main street and even managed to arrange a telephone line for call-ins. This program gives a sense of the way a community deals with hidden history, an obscured native inheritance, and addresses the anger, shame, fear, and denial of the descendants of the early settlers as they hear for the first time in a public way from the descendants of the original people of the valley.
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Round Valley Indian Reservation, Northern California
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