Pomo Indian baskets and their makers . A Feathered Jewel—A Pomo *E-pi-ca. [Plain /I The traders of the Hudson Bay Company, whose influence uponthe Indians of the great Northwest is still so apparent, hadnot come so far south, while the Mexican soldiers who attemptedto penetrate these fastnesses met with a reception so warmthat it was still fresh in their memory when, in the year l!S4(i,the United States succeeded Mexico as sovereign of POMO INDIAN BASKETS. 5 At that date these little tribes were scarcely more affected bycivilization than when Columbus discovered the New World. In
Pomo Indian baskets and their makers . A Feathered Jewel—A Pomo *E-pi-ca. [Plain /I The traders of the Hudson Bay Company, whose influence uponthe Indians of the great Northwest is still so apparent, hadnot come so far south, while the Mexican soldiers who attemptedto penetrate these fastnesses met with a reception so warmthat it was still fresh in their memory when, in the year l!S4(i,the United States succeeded Mexico as sovereign of POMO INDIAN BASKETS. 5 At that date these little tribes were scarcely more affected bycivilization than when Columbus discovered the New World. In the early Fifties, American settlers began to push intothe beautiful valleys which had so long been their first they were not molested by the Indians, and it wasonly when unprincipled scoundrels had kidnapped their^jhiil-dren by scores to be sold into slavery and otherwise most out-rageously maltreated them that they rose and killed several oftheir worst enemies. The usual resulfTiappened. The Indiansof the Clear Lake region fled to an island which standsamong the marshes at the upper end of the lake, an ancientstronghold of theirs. They were pursued by soldiers and de-
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