LOS ANGELES -- The history of white settlers' contact with the aboriginal natives of Humboldt County, Calif., in the mid-19th century is as bloody as any of the wars over white colonization of the Great Plains, culminating in the Indian Island Massacre of about 100 members of the Wiyot tribe in February 1860. More than 150 years later, that
Lawsuit Claims Some Schools Hostile To Native American Students
The public educational system has been discriminating against Native American students by “ignoring or actively affronting” their culture.