Talk:The Number of Darkness/@comment-26030957-20150710201707

Author's note: This is a work of fiction. However, the Indian Wars of Humboldt County are not. Nor were the Humboldt Volunteers, an unauthorized and illegal militia that slaughtered an untold number of Native Americans. In the Tuluwat Island massacre of 1860 alone between eighty and two hundred and fifty peaceful natives, mostly women and children, were savagely murdered with axes, knives and guns (this is what is being referenced when Josephine says, “And do you know what we have your Reverend and your brothers doing now? Caving in the heads of babies on an island in the bay!”). [|Tuluwat Island Massacre of 1860]