Massacres & mob attacks
The Bloody Island massacre at Clear Lake
15 May 1850Badon-napoti, Bloody Island, upper Clear Lake, CA
US dragoons attacked a Pomo village on Clear Lake in reprisal for the killing of two ranchers who had enslaved and starved their workers. The people killed had nothing to do with it.
- People killed
- 60–800
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