(Doctº en inglés) DISTURBANCES between whites & Indians alarmingly frequent

Miscellaneous / Unbound Documents, tomo Unbound · BANC MSS C-A 63, document 432

(Doctº en inglés) DISTURBANCES between whites & Indians alarmingly frequent; bands of whites daily forming to seize & kill every Indian they meet, innocent or guilty, peaceful or turbulent; the Indians living near their property in great alarm, some having escaped from assassins beg protection; the whites who commit these disturbances are newcomers mainly from Oregon; among the aggressors is a true fury to assassinate Indians; 'el grito ahora es: 'exterminate the Indians, let there be a war of extermination'' (the actual extermination-cry recorded); sees the imperious necessity of immediately sending a sufficient force to protect the Indians — ⭐ a naming of the extermination rhetoric at its origin

Date1849-04-24 (exact)
FromJ.A. Sutter (Sub-Índ. Agt.)
ToGen. E.R.F. Smith
PlaceSacramento
SeriesMiscellaneous / Unbound Documents
TomoUnbound
Original tomo page—
Savage copy page305
Scan leafn307
Document typeabstract
SourceSavage abstract

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How to cite this documentJ.A. Sutter (Sub-Índ. Agt.) to Gen. E.R.F. Smith, Sacramento, 1849-04-24, Miscellaneous / Unbound Documents, Unbound, —, Archives of California, C-A 63, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.Cite the document by series, tomo and original tomo page, as the literature does; the C-A number locates it in the repository. To cite this catalogue entry itself, use https://archivesofcalifornia.com/record/ca63/ca63-d432.html
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