New Film:History of Covelo and Round Valley 1848-2008

They need to do a history of Round Valley film,
one that covers 1850's to the trouble with the Sheriffs Dept. Today!
Just a little history to share with you all.
The "pioneers" and the "wild west" and "Frontier Days" aren't nearly the nice innocent folks nor times they have been wrapped in plastic to be, especially in Mendocino and Humboldt Counties where tens of thousands of Native Americans were wiped out in genocide that was sanctioned by local community leaders in the mid 1800's. The people killing the Indians as well as other atrocities too graphic to mention here were carried out by William Jarboe of the "Eel River Rangers".
All said and done the Eel River rangers were responsible for well over 3000 Native American Murders.
Read
"When the Great Spirit Died,
By William B. Secrest
Free on Google Books
http://books.google.com/books...
Also Read "Killing for Land in Early California"
"Indian Blood at Round Valley 1856-1863
Also available free from google books...
http://books.google.com/books...
Could these bitter slaughters and oppression be part of the reason the Covelo- Round Valley area has been so "HAUNTED" for the Mendo County Sheriffs Office??

These acts of genocide and historic racism were brought up during the defense trial for Bear Lincoln who was acquitted and found innocent by a jury in the death of Deputy Bob Davis.

Read "What Really Happened" on the Albion Monitor Website follow the link: http://www.albionmonitor.net/9-2-95/main.html

White Man's Cattle, Red Man's Game: Issues in the Mendocino War
By Ed Bigelow
The following article originally appeared in the the November 24, 1952 issue of the Paul Bunyon News of Fort Bragg. It has not been edited to take into account modern sensitivities to California's Native American population.
As the white man's civilization rolled westward, the American Indian was pushed further toward the setting sun until the Pacific Ocean ended further retreat. When the white men came into the state of California, either in covered wagon across the plains, or around the Horn, the California Indian was herded onto reservations. One of these was the Mendocino reservation on which the Nome Cult farm was located.
At this time, about 1858, there were 10,000 Indians in the country, of which only 3,200 consented to live as the white man directed. The remainder tried to continue life as it was before their conquerors came. The settlers erected fences and brought in cattle which caused the wild life to diminish, thus working a hardship on the Indian.
Mostly as a means of subsistence, the Indian began killing the settlers' cattle. In many instances they killed for revenge against the usurpers. Each time the settlers came upon a dead cow, they blamed the Indians for the deed and would promptly raid an Indian rancheria, killing men, women and children, indiscriminately.
A private army of 40 men was organized under the command of Captain W.W. Jarboe of Ukiah, to punish the Indians. At this time there was a unit of the U.S. Army --the 6th Infantry--composed of 23 men and commanded by Lt. Edward Dillon, a 25 year old soldier. The unit was stationed in Round Valley. The settlers complained that the regular army protected the Indians and not the settlers. A bitter animosity existed between Dillon and the settlers.
Open warfare broke out between the settlers and the Indians. The redmen raided the white's cattle and the whites killed any and Indians they suspected of killing cattle.
A special California house and senate committee was finally sent to Mendocino in 1860 to investigate what they called the "Mendocino War." The committee under the chairmanship of J.B. Lamar, met in February 1860 at Storm's Ranch in Round Valley to hear the settlers tell their story and to take depositions.
William Frazier, a 38 year old farmer of Long Valley, told the committee he and others raided an Indian village after hearing of cattle killing and that the redmen had some fresh killed beef at their rancheria.
"All the Indians fled when we came, but one," he said. "We shot his head off."
"Last December (1859) we organized a company of 40 men. I was elected Lieutenant. Two days later I led an expedition across Eel River between Long and Round Valleys and saw a fire of an Indian rancheria. We waited until sun up before attacking and killed 20 of them, including bucks, squaws and children and took two women and one child prisoner.

"A week later," he continued, "we found two wounded bucks and one old squaw, all of whom we killed," and on the way home saw more Indians, Charles S. Bournes, Round Valley rancher, continued the tale. He said: "The regular troops here were just a nuisance and never accomplished any good; they protected the Indians and not the settlers."
William T. Scott of Scott Valley, told the committee he had never had any trouble with the Indians. He said that Jarboe's orders were to kill all Indians seen. "I went with Jarboe once and came across two bucks collecting acorns in Eden Valley. We killed one, but the other got away." In the statement Scott made, March 2, 1860 he said he had always treated the Indians kindly and never had any cattle killed by them."
An employee of the Nome Cult farm, Lawrence Battaile, 36, testified that S.P. Storms and other settlers one day came out to the farm on the reservation on suspicion that some of the reservation Indians had been killing cattle.
The settlers, said Battaile, picked out 20 redmen, accused them of killing and started shooting them. Eight redmen were shot and five hung the rest managed to escape. Storms, 29, a rancher of Round Valley said over 500 Indians had been killed in the county in the three and a half years preceding.
When he was asked if many squaws were killed by the settlers, H.L. Hall, 25, refused to answer the committee's question. "I think one squaw died from a bullet and all the squaws in one particular incident were killed before they would not travel. The infants were put out of their misery and one 10 year old girl was killed for being stubborn," he said.
"I consider it dangerous for any white man to travel along the roads in this area," William Patterson, 31, of Ukiah Valley, said. "I know of 10 or 15 white men who have been killed by Indians."
The special joint committee on the Mendocino War heard over 45 witnesses and made their report.
Jasper O'Farrell, W.B. Dickinson and W.B. Maxson of the committee made the majority report of the hearing. They said the white men were to blame for the Indian troubles and that in four months of 1860, more Indians of Mendocino county had been killed than in a century of Spanish and Mexican rule.
In the minority report, J.B. Lamar said the Indians were a cowardly lot and proposed a system of peonage. The Indians, under this proposal would be assigned as servants to the local ranchers and laws would be passed to prevent any third party from interfering between "master and servant."
It is not known what good came of this committee's investigation or what solution finally developed, if any. The committee's report and depositions of the local settlers are believed to be the only record of the little known Mendocino Indian War.

The Arrival Of Whites Andrew Freeman The Native American residents of California experienced a brutal side of the gold rush. One marked by disease, oppression, and death. California's Indian population, already diminished by a century of Spanish intrusion, dropped from 150,000 at the time of the gold rush to 30, 000 by 1870 as hundreds of thousands of Anglo gold rushers methodically mined, hunted, and logged even the Indians' most remote hiding places. When Native Californians retaliated by raiding white camps for subsistence, Americans organized war parties and slaughtered entire Indian groups. Andrew Freeman, affiliated with the Nomlaki tribe, gave this account in 1936 -- passed down from older tribe members�of the arrival of whites. WE HAD A MAN at Thomas Creek that had power given to him. He was young. He sang all the time. He drank water and ate once a month. He ate a little of everything, then took one swallow of water and smoked. He stayed in the sweat-house all the time. Now our captain [chief] used to get out early every morning on top of the sweat-house and, calling everybody by name, would tell them what to do. This fortuneteller from Thomas Creek would tell the people just how much game they would get and whether any mishaps would fall. He lived across from our present reservation at Paskenta. One day he said, "There are some people from across the ocean who are going to come to this country." He looked for them for three years. "They have come kind of boat with which they can cross, and they wil1 make it. They are on the way." Finally he said that they were on the land and that they were coming now. He said that they had fire at night and lots to eat. "They cook the same as we do; they smoke after meals, and they have a language of their own. They talk, laugh, and sing, just as we do. Besides, they have five fingers and toes, they are built like we are, only they are light." He said their blood was awfully light. "They have a four-legged animal which some are riding and some are packing. They haven't any wives, any of them. They all are single. They are bringing some kind of sickness." So everybody was notified. The night watch and day watch were kept. He said that they had something long which shoots little round things a long distance. They have something short that shoots just the same. Finally the whites came in at Orland; many of them. When they came in they started shooting. There were thousands of Indians in the hills who went to fighting the whites. The Indians went after them but they couldn't do anything to them. Finally they got to Newville, and the man who was telling these fortunes said the whites were going to be there.

The Indians were ready for them. The whites came by Oakes' place and down the flat at one o'clock in the morning. They killed the first Indian that showed himself. The captain told the others to stay in the house and get their bows and arrows ready. The captain yelled to the whites that he was ready inside the house. He told his men, "When you get ready, run out and crowd into it. "The captain sent them to fight at close range. He said, "We are dead anyway." The whites couldn't load their muzzleloaders, so they used revolvers. The captain told his men to spear them. They fought from morning till afternoon. The Indians had come all the way from Colusa. They killed all those whites. The Indians were afraid of gray horses. They killed the horses. They examined everything. They divided everything up. One old man from south of the Tapscott place took away a lot of their money. His children used to take the money and play with it. Finally he took it up the canyon and hid it. The whites are looking for that money today but can't find it. Another group of whites came to Mountain House [lopom]. They killed many of the Indians. White people hit women and children in the head. One Indian shouted from a rock when the white men started back. The whites came up there, and that Indian went into the rock cave, and they shot one white man from there. But the whites threw fire into the cave and killed all the Indians in there. They had been hiding in the hills. Indians couldn't get to the salt. They got very weak�they say salt keeps a person fit. There was no rain for three years, and fighting going on every day. No clover, no acorn, juniper berries, or peppergrass. Nothing for three years. Very little rain. Finally the Indians got smallpox, and the Indian doctor couldn't cure them. They died by the thousands. Gonorrhea came among the Indians. That killed a lot of them. My grandfather said that if he had fought he would have been killed too. But he went up to Yolla Bolly Mountain with about six hundred others and stayed three years. On the third winter there was a heavy snowstorm. The snow was over his head. He said women can stand more starvation than men. They singed the hair off a deerhide shoulder strap and ate it. Men died every day from starvation. That was in Camp of Dark Canyon in the winter. Women would find a little bunch of grass and eat it and would bring a handful back for their husbands. The women would have to chew it for the men. The man was too weak to swallow it. She would take a mouthful of water and pour it into his mouth. That was the way they saved a lot of them. After that the whites began to gather up the Indians. They made the Nome Lackee Reservation in Tehama County. They take a tame Indian along when they bring Indians together on a reservation. They worked the Indians on the reservation. Old Martin was given a saddle mule and clothes. He wouldn't wear anything but the shirt�the overalls hurt his legs. He was a kind of foreman. Every Saturday they killed four or five beef and divided it among the Indians. They ground wheat and made biscuits. The women shocked hay. They had to examine all the men and women for disease. Garland on the present Oakes' place wouldn't let them take the Indians off of his land, and that's what saved them. When they took the Indians to Covelo [in Round Valley, on the Nome Cult Reserve] they drove them like stock. Indians had to carry their own food. Some of the old people began to give out when they got to the hills. They shot the old people who couldn't make the trip. They would shoot children who were getting tired. Finally they got the Indians to Covelo. They killed all who tried to get away and wouldn't return to Covelo.

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"AMERICAN INDIANS ARE PEOPLE, NOT MASCOTS
Charlene Teters, Spokane
On the verge of the millenium, Indian people are still involved in what Michael Haney has described as the longest undeclared war against the American Indian, here in our own homeland. This war, no longer on battlefields is now being fought in the courtrooms, corporation boardrooms, and classrooms over the appropriation of Native American names, spiritual and cultural symbols by professional sports, Hollywood, schools, and universities. The issue for us is the right to self identification and self determination this is the fight of the National Coalition on Racism in Sports and the Media.

The American Indian community for 50 years has worked to banish images and names like Cleveland's chief wahoo, Washington redskins, Kansas City chiefs, Atlanta braves. We work to remind people of consciousness of the use of the symbols resemblance to other historic, racist images of the past. Chief wahoo offends Indian people the same way that little black sambo offended African Americans and the frito bandito offended the Hispanic community and should have offended all of us. It assaults the principle of justice.

Last year during the media hype that surrounded the baseball playoff games between New York and Cleveland, the New York Post caught up in the hype covered its front page with the headline, "Take the Tribe and Scalp 'Em." Little concern was shown for the Indian children, or community living in New York City, or around the country. The American public has been conditioned by sports industry, educational institutions, and the media to trivialize Indigenous culture as common and harmless entertainment. On high school and college campuses Native American students do not feel welcome if the school uses as its mascot (not a clown, a mythical creature, or an animal) a Chief, the highest political position you can attain in our society. Using our names, likeness and religious symbols to excite the crowd does not feel like honor or respect, it is hurtful and confusing to our young people. To reduce the victims of genocide to a mascot is unthinking, at least, and immoral at worst. An educational institution's mission is to educate, not mis-educate, and to alleviate the ignorance behind racist stereotypes, not perpetuate them and to provide a nondiscriminatory environment for all its students, conducive to learning.

Student leadership has played a significant role in bringing the mascot issue forward. In the 1970's students at Stanford and Dartmouth were successful in changing the athletic identity from Indians to a race-neutral name and symbol. Since 1988, the student-led struggle to retire the dancing Indian mascot/symbol at the University of Illinois continues with little chance of change against an arrogant and entrenched governor-appointed Board of Trustees.

Still, in recent years, significant contributions to this movement to eradicate racist mascots have been made. At least six Universities have changed their names, the Los Angeles Board of Education voted to ban Indian images and names. In schools across the country the mascot issues is being debated and these debates are being led by young Native people finding a new found pride in reclaiming themselves."

This is the story of Lester "Smitty" Smith, 89, and his wife Mary, 79, of Philo and last Wednesday's marijuana raid on their home and the homes of their 2 granddaughters, their husbands and children. The adult grandchildren, Yolanda and Carla Mayberry, 31 and 29, and their husbands were hauled away by sheriff's deputies; CPA took all five kids.
There was apparently a neighbor's smell complaint that drew deputies to the Philo residence of the elderly couple who grew their own modest garden of 17 marijuana plants for medical use under their doctor's approval. Their granddaughters and husbands were growing a total of 74 plants for 3 people on an adjoining parcel, a combined total of 91 plants. They were in compliance with local guidelines of 25 plants per person (Measure G), which was the law in place when they planted their gardens in the spring before the June election.
Deputies illegally used Mendocino County civil nuisance ordinance 9.31 -- the 25 plants per parcel law -- to justify confiscating all their plants, leaving none as medicine for ill people. They explained that all three families exceeded the 25 plants per parcel limit, so they were taking it all. Plus they found the couple's life savings of $55,400 in cash and took that too, rather than bother with a messy arrest of the elderly couple.
All this havoc, disruption and suffering was over legitimate cultivation of marijuana for medical purposes: all 6 adults were Prop 215 approved.
"Smitty" and his wife Mary were at home Sept 24 around noon, when Sheriff's deputies and Child Protective Agency officers began arriving based on a complaint with a warrant in hand for one of the granddaughters. But they had to call in a request for separate parcel warrants on the elderly Smiths plus the 2nd granddaughter and her husband. Deputies evacuated everyone from their houses, forcing them to wait outside for five hours until the additional warrants arrived.
Once they gained legal entry into the Smith's house, it turns out deputies were more interested in robbing than arresting them, when they discovered $54,000 in cash and 2 family guns (revolver and rifle). Smith was smart to take his property receipt in the next day to reclaim his wrongly seized life savings and family heirlooms. He filled out forms claiming legitimacy for their life savings from his wife's inheritance and his own cashed in CDs. "When the Wall Street thing hit, I put money in a safe."
I asked him to describe the experience. "They turned everything upside down on me. They charged in here all of a sudden and went nuts. They said I couldn't have two gardens on one parcel. I had 17 plants for me and Mary. That's too many? They took my pot and all my life savings.
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I asked Yolanda, 31, the oldest sister, about her take on the raid. "They were unjustified coming in my house, taking my kids. We were charged with cultivation and cultivation for sale. But our marijuana is legal. I'm a caregiver for my husband. My sister and her husband are medical. They had a warrant for my sister's house, not mine, not Grampa's. They took Grampa's life savings. They scared me and coerced a false confession. They told me a lie: that Grampa had told them I'd sold some of his marijuana for $500. I didn't want to contradict what they said he said and get him in trouble so I told them I did. I was crying, sick, throwing up. I'm very upset. I feel they came in here and took our lives away from us."

I asked Yolanda how it unfolded. "Me and my sister were at the house. The cops show up. CPS asks about my sister, saw my husband's garden and my sister's and her husband's. We had five gardens total, 91 plants total. We thought we were allowed 25 plants per garden. That's what they used against us. They said we could have only 25 plants per parcel. Grampa has two parcels so they took everything. We waited all those hours for the warrants to arrive. At the end, when they finally arrived, they arrested our husbands and brought me and my sister off to the side. We thought they were going to tell us what was happening. We had no idea they would arrest us too. They threw us in the back (of the patrol car). CPS took our kids in a separate vehicle."

There was apparently a separate CPS complaint as well, based on things Carla's 7-year old boy is supposed to have said. There is always the kiddie bugaboo, which creeps into every case where a justification for separating families is needed.

Yolanda explained, "It's her littlest son's mouth. We hear he's supposed to have made up stories that he helped trim, that he smoked it, that our dogs and horses smoked it. This is a seven-year old with a wild imagination, give me a break. We make it so our kids never touch it. It's in a separate area. My sister is a good mother."

I am grateful to Karen Ottoboni for bringing this situation to my attention. Her comment, "We can't let this happen to our 90 year olds" says it all.

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They need to do a history of Round Valley film,
one that covers 1850's to the trouble with the Sheriffs Dept. Today!
Just a little history to share with you all.
The "pioneers" and the "wild west" and "Frontier Days" aren't nearly the nice innocent folks nor times they have been wrapped in plastic to be, especially in Mendocino and Humboldt Counties where tens of thousands of Native Americans were wiped out in genocide that was sanctioned by local community leaders in the mid 1800's. The people killing the Indians as well as other atrocities too graphic to mention here were carried out by William Jarboe of the "Eel River Rangers".
All said and done the Eel River rangers were responsible for well over 3000 Native American Murders.
Read
"When the Great Spirit Died,
By William B. Secrest
Free on Google Books
http://books.google.com/books...
Also Read "Killing for Land in Early California"
"Indian Blood at Round Valley 1856-1863
Also available free from google books...
http://books.google.com/books...
Could these bitter slaughters and oppression be part of the reason the Covelo- Round Valley area has been so "HAUNTED" for the Mendo County Sheriffs Office??
These acts of genocide and historic racism were brought up during the defense trial for Bear Lincoln who was acquitted and found innocent by a jury in the death of Deputy Bob Davis.
Read "What Really Happened" on the Albion Monitor Website follow the link: http://www.albionmonitor.net/9-2-95/main.html

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History Repeats It's self!

They need to do a history of Round Valley film,
one that covers 1850's to the trouble with the Sheriffs Dept. Today!
Just a little history to share with you all.
The "pioneers" and the "wild west" and "Frontier Days" aren't nearly the nice innocent folks nor times they have been wrapped in plastic to be, especially in Mendocino and Humboldt Counties where tens of thousands of Native Americans were wiped out in genocide that was sanctioned by local community leaders in the mid 1800's. The people killing the Indians as well as other atrocities too graphic to mention here were carried out by William Jarboe of the "Eel River Rangers".
All said and done the Eel River rangers were responsible for well over 3000 Native American Murders.
Read
"When the Great Spirit Died,
By William B. Secrest
Free on Google Books
http://books.google.com/books...
Also Read "Killing for Land in Early California"
"Indian Blood at Round Valley 1856-1863
Also available free from google books...
http://books.google.com/books...
Could these bitter slaughters and oppression be part of the reason the Covelo- Round Valley area has been so "HAUNTED" for the Mendo County Sheriffs Office??
These acts of genocide and historic racism were brought up during the defense trial for Bear Lincoln who was acquitted and found innocent by a jury in the death of Deputy Bob Davis.
Read "What Really Happened" on the Albion Monitor Website follow the link: http://www.albionmonitor.net/9-2-95/main.html

This isn't the first lawsuit RECENTLY filed against Sheriff Allman, see:
http://www.topix.com/forum/source/ukiah-daily...
A Ukiah man has filed a lawsuit for alleged civil rights violations he says he sustained during his second arrest in a two-year-long series of marijuana events in Ukiah.
The attorneys of Memo Parker filed a complaint Oct. 15 with U.S. District Court Clerk Richard W. Wieking, San Francisco, that names seven defendants.
Robert Nishiyama, Peter Hoyle, Thomas Allman, the Mendocino County Sheriff's Office, the county of Mendocino and 100 "Does" are the defendants, as stated in the complaint filed by Parker's attorneys J. David Nick and E.D. Lerman.
The history of events leading up to the filing dates to several years ago.
On Oct. 16, 2006, brothers Memo Parker and Mark Parker were arrested on a search warrant served at two Gardens Avenue locations. At that time, officers seized 190 marijuana plants, 262 smaller "clone" plants and 170 pounds of processed marijuana. It was stated at the time that both Memo and Mark Parker had medical marijuana recommendations.
In August of 2007, a jury voted 11-1 that Mark Parker was not guilty of managing a location for the production of a controlled substance. He was also acquitted of all other charges.
The same jury that let Mark Parker walk then voted 10-2 to convict Memo Parker. Because jury members said that more deliberating would not yield a unanimous decision, a mistrial was declared.
On Sept. 5, Deputy District Attorney James Nerli said that the Mendocino County District Attorney's Office would retry Mark and Memo
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Parker.
Then, in February 2008, authorities returned to the Gardens Avenue locations of Memo Parker and in a raid took 297 marijuana plants and 34 pounds of processed marijuana, police reports stated. Memo Parker was arrested at that time on suspicion of cultivation of marijuana for sale and possession of marijuana for sale.
Following the second arrest, Parker pleaded no contest to conspiracy to commit acts injurious to public health or morality. By pleading as he did, all other charges against him were dropped.
The most recent event involving Parker prior to when the complaint was filed was when he entered Mendocino County Jail in mid-August to begin serving a 180-day sentence.
In a press release last week from one of Parker's attorneys, J. David Nick, Nick stated that the lawsuit focuses on a practice of questioning those arrested "without informed consent under the Miranda rights and illegal interrogations of suspects who are represented by counsel." In the press release, Nick also states that the Sheriff's Office uses the term illegal commercial growers' and the idea that all marijuana sales are illegal' to take away rights from medical marijuana growers.
Nick stated that the second arrest of Parker in February is when Parker was allegedly interrogated unlawfully by the Mendocino Major Crimes Task Force. According to Nick, the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution grant Parker rights which were violated during the second arrest.
The other recent $1,000,000 Lawsuit against Sheriff Allman:
Found this Document at:
http://dockets.justia.com/docket/court-candce...
Simon v. Allman et al
Plaintiff: Robert Simon
Defendant: Thomas D. Allman and County of Mendocino
Case Number: 3:2008cv03380
Filed: July 14, 2008
Court: California Northern District Court
Office: Civil Rights: Other Office [ Court Info ]
County: Mendocino
Presiding Judge: Magistrate Judge Elizabeth D. Laporte
Nature of Suit: Civil Rights - Other Civil Rights
Cause: Federal Question
Jurisdiction: Federal Question
Jury Demanded By: 42:1983 Civil Rights Act
Amount Demanded:$1,000,000.00
Here is the Link:
http://dockets.justia.com/docket/court-candce...

PUBLIC EMPLOYEES CAUSING LOSS OF RIGHTS. INJURY. &
DAMAGES:

Mendocino County Sheriff's Department: Sheriff JIM TUSO,
Capt. BERLE MURRAY, Deputies TIM ELLIS, SHANNON BARNEY,
AL TRIPP,(FNU, first name unknown) SMALLCOMB,(FNU)
KENDALL,(FNU) STEPHANI, John/Jane Does #1-X;
Mendocino County D.A.'s Office: John Doe #2-X
Sonoma County Sheriff's Department: Deputy ROY GOURLEY, J. Does #3-X;
Fort Bragg Police Department: J. Does #4-X;
Calif. Highway Patrol: Ofcr.(FNU) SENSERI, John Does #5-X;
California Department of Forestry: J. Does #6-X;
U.S. Forest Service: DIANE WELTON?, J. Doe #7-X;
Bureau of Indian Affairs: J. Does #8-X
Federal Bureau of Investigation: J. Does t9-X
--together with other unknown, sworn officers and employees of
various agencies who have participated in the activities and conduct
complained of below. Names of these personnel are presently
unknown to Claimants. In the event of litigation relating to these
claims they will be sued as unknown named defendants along with the
above-listed officers.

AMOUNTS CLAIMED: Injury, damage and loss in the amount of One
hundred thousand dollars ($100,000.00), and punitive damages in a like
amount are demanded for each claimant, except where lasting
emotional injury to children is shown, in which cases upper limits on
damages cannot be determined at this time.

Legal action for these violations lies in the Superior Court of California,
County of Mendocino and/or the U.S. District Court for the Northern
District of California.

FACTUAL BASIS OF CLAIM(S):

INTRODUCTION

These claims arise from a series of incidents in which members
of the Mendocino County Sheriff's Department, sometimes joined by
officers from the California Highway Patrol, the U.S. Forest Service
(USFS), the Sonoma County Sheriff's Department, and, on information
and belief, the Humboldt County Sheriff's Department, the California
Dept. of Forestry (CDF), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the
Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), the Fort Bragg Police Department, and
other agencies still unknown, carried on a campaign of illegal and
unconstitutional harassment and intimidation against numerous
Indian people and others related to or associated with Leonard "Acorn"
Peters and Eugene "Bear" Lincoln, or their families, after the two were
involved in a shooting incident, on April 14, 1995, which left Peters and
a sheriff's officer dead.
These activities--occurring against a background of long-standing
hostility and gross discrimination against Indian residents of
Mendocino County by Sheriff's Department and Highway Patrol
officers, stretching back years -- began shortly after the shooting; they
have continued intermittently up to the present.
The illicit purpose of these actions by sworn peace officers from
the various local, state and federal authorities was and is to exact
revenge, retaliation and group punishment -- in what has been a
distinctively pointed and heightened outburst of perennial racist
hostility towards Native Americans in Mendocino County -- for the
death of a colleague

Check it ou for yourself.....
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Even today- wrote:

PUBLIC EMPLOYEES CAUSING LOSS OF RIGHTS. INJURY. &
DAMAGES:
Mendocino County Sheriff's Department: Sheriff JIM TUSO,
Capt. BERLE MURRAY, Deputies TIM ELLIS, SHANNON BARNEY,
AL TRIPP,(FNU, first name unknown) SMALLCOMB,(FNU)
KENDALL,(FNU) STEPHANI, John/Jane Does #1-X;
Mendocino County D.A.'s Office: John Doe #2-X
Sonoma County Sheriff's Department: Deputy ROY GOURLEY, J. Does #3-X;
Fort Bragg Police Department: J. Does #4-X;
Calif. Highway Patrol: Ofcr.(FNU) SENSERI, John Does #5-X;
California Department of Forestry: J. Does #6-X;
U.S. Forest Service: DIANE WELTON?, J. Doe #7-X;
Bureau of Indian Affairs: J. Does #8-X
Federal Bureau of Investigation: J. Does t9-X
--together with other unknown, sworn officers and employees of
various agencies who have participated in the activities and conduct
complained of below. Names of these personnel are presently
unknown to Claimants. In the event of litigation relating to these
claims they will be sued as unknown named defendants along with the
above-listed officers.
AMOUNTS CLAIMED: Injury, damage and loss in the amount of One
hundred thousand dollars ($100,000.00), and punitive damages in a like
amount are demanded for each claimant, except where lasting
emotional injury to children is shown, in which cases upper limits on
damages cannot be determined at this time.
Legal action for these violations lies in the Superior Court of California,
County of Mendocino and/or the U.S. District Court for the Northern
District of California.
FACTUAL BASIS OF CLAIM(S):
INTRODUCTION
These claims arise from a series of incidents in which members
of the Mendocino County Sheriff's Department, sometimes joined by
officers from the California Highway Patrol, the U.S. Forest Service
(USFS), the Sonoma County Sheriff's Department, and, on information
and belief, the Humboldt County Sheriff's Department, the California
Dept. of Forestry (CDF), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the
Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), the Fort Bragg Police Department, and
other agencies still unknown, carried on a campaign of illegal and
unconstitutional harassment and intimidation against numerous
Indian people and others related to or associated with Leonard "Acorn"
Peters and Eugene "Bear" Lincoln, or their families, after the two were
involved in a shooting incident, on April 14, 1995, which left Peters and
a sheriff's officer dead.
These activities--occurring against a background of long-standing
hostility and gross discrimination against Indian residents of
Mendocino County by Sheriff's Department and Highway Patrol
officers, stretching back years -- began shortly after the shooting; they
have continued intermittently up to the present.
The illicit purpose of these actions by sworn peace officers from
the various local, state and federal authorities was and is to exact
revenge, retaliation and group punishment -- in what has been a
distinctively pointed and heightened outburst of perennial racist
hostility towards Native Americans in Mendocino County -- for the
death of a colleague
Check it ou for yourself.....
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2009 Police State "RANT" of the New Year!!!
Alex Jones goes of on the corrupt Mendocino police state.
http://www.youtube.com/watch...

They need to do a history of Round Valley film,
one that covers 1850's to the trouble with the Sheriffs Dept. Today!
Just a little history to share with you all.
The "pioneers" and the "wild west" and "Frontier Days" aren't nearly the nice innocent folks nor times they have been wrapped in plastic to be, especially in Mendocino and Humboldt Counties where tens of thousands of Native Americans were wiped out in genocide that was sanctioned by local community leaders in the mid 1800's. The people killing the Indians as well as other atrocities too graphic to mention here were carried out by William Jarboe of the "Eel River Rangers".
All said and done the Eel River rangers were responsible for well over 3000 Native American Murders.
Read
"When the Great Spirit Died,
By William B. Secrest
Free on Google Books
http://books.google.com/books...
Also Read "Killing for Land in Early California"
"Indian Blood at Round Valley 1856-1863
Also available free from google books...
http://books.google.com/books...
Could these bitter slaughters and oppression be part of the reason the Covelo- Round Valley area has been so "HAUNTED" for the Mendo County Sheriffs Office??
These acts of genocide and historic racism were brought up during the defense trial for Bear Lincoln who was acquitted and found innocent by a jury in the death of Deputy Bob Davis.
Read "What Really Happened" on the Albion Monitor Website follow the link: http://www.albionmonitor.net/9-2-95/main.html

Mendocino County Sheriff's Office Recruitment Spot
for Covelo Resident Deputies:
http://www.youtube.com/watch...

Why Can't the Sheriff find Covelo Deputies?
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History of Round Valley (Covelo)
http://www.topix.net/forum/source/ukiah-daily...

New Film:History of Covelo and Round Valley 1848-2008
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Covelo History Project
http://www.topix.net/forum/source/ukiah-daily...

They need to do a history of Round Valley film,
one that covers 1850's to the trouble with the Sheriffs Dept. Today!
Just a little history to share with you all.
The "pioneers" and the "wild west" and "Frontier Days" aren't nearly the nice innocent folks nor times they have been wrapped in plastic to be, especially in Mendocino and Humboldt Counties where tens of thousands of Native Americans were wiped out in genocide that was sanctioned by local community leaders in the mid 1800's. The people killing the Indians as well as other atrocities too graphic to mention here were carried out by William Jarboe of the "Eel River Rangers".
All said and done the Eel River rangers were responsible for well over 3000 Native American Murders.
Read
"When the Great Spirit Died,
By William B. Secrest
Free on Google Books
http://books.google.com/books...
Also Read "Killing for Land in Early California"
"Indian Blood at Round Valley 1856-1863
Also available free from google books...
http://books.google.com/books...
Could these bitter slaughters and oppression be part of the reason the Covelo- Round Valley area has been so "HAUNTED" for the Mendo County Sheriffs Office??
These acts of genocide and historic racism were brought up during the defense trial for Bear Lincoln who was acquitted and found innocent by a jury in the death of Deputy Bob Davis.
Read "What Really Happened" on the Albion Monitor Website follow the link: http://www.albionmonitor.net/9-2-95/main.html
http://www.topix.net/forum/source/ukiah-daily...

I would be interested in compiling interviews with Native Americans in Round Valley. I only get up that way a couple times a year but I am very interested in many aspects of the local Native American history and anything they may remember or stories handed down. I would be interested in uses of local plants, recipes, medicinals, you name it. We need to preserve this knowledge. If you could line people up, perhaps we could get something done.My sister lives in Round Valley.

your links...

Mendocino County Sheriff's Office Recruitment Spot
for Covelo Resident Deputies:
http://www.youtube.com/watch...
Why Can't the Sheriff find Covelo Deputies?
http://www.topix.net/forum/source/ukiah-daily...
History of Round Valley (Covelo)
http://www.topix.net/forum/source/ukiah-daily...
New Film:History of Covelo and Round Valley 1848-2008
http://www.topix.net/forum/source/ukiah-daily...
Covelo History Project
http://www.topix.net/forum/source/ukiah-daily...
They need to do a history of Round Valley film,
one that covers 1850's to the trouble with the Sheriffs Dept. Today!
Just a little history to share with you all.
The "pioneers" and the "wild west" and "Frontier Days" aren't nearly the nice innocent folks nor times they have been wrapped in plastic to be, especially in Mendocino and Humboldt Counties where tens of thousands of Native Americans were wiped out in genocide that was sanctioned by local community leaders in the mid 1800's. The people killing the Indians as well as other atrocities too graphic to mention here were carried out by William Jarboe of the "Eel River Rangers".
All said and done the Eel River rangers were responsible for well over 3000 Native American Murders.
Read
"When the Great Spirit Died,
By William B. Secrest
Free on Google Books
http://books.google.com/books...
Also Read "Killing for Land in Early California"
"Indian Blood at Round Valley 1856-1863
Also available free from google books...
http://books.google.com/books...
Could these bitter slaughters and oppression be part of the reason the Covelo- Round Valley area has been so "HAUNTED" for the Mendo County Sheriffs Office??
These acts of genocide and historic racism were brought up during the defense trial for Bear Lincoln who was acquitted and found innocent by a jury in the death of Deputy Bob Davis.
Read "What Really Happened" on the Albion Monitor Website follow the link: http://www.albionmonitor.net/9-2-95/main.html
http://www.topix.net/forum/source/ukiah-daily...