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Gunard Solberg, Tales of Wovoka ³

The early 1860s was a time of turmoil and conflict for the Paiute peoples of Owens Valley east of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, as well as the Northern Paiutes of the Pyramid Lake region in what was then Utah Territory and present-day western Nevada. Even in eastern Nevada where the Overland Stage Company ran from Salt Lake City to the Schell Creek Mountains (immediately east of present-day Eli, Nevada), a distance of 225 miles, an eight-month war took place between the cousins of the Northern Paiutes, the Goshutes, and the white intruders. At least 16 whites were killed, and over 50 Goshutes died before peace was achieved in October 1863.⁴

These incidents and conflicts were followed by events that eventually led to the disintegration of the Paiute homeland and, of course, the Paiute sense of family and identity. The so-called Keyesville Massacre of 1863 resulted in the death of at least 35 Indians,⁵ including many Paiutes, and that event was followed by the removal of nearly a thousand Owens Valley Paiutes to Fort Tejon and the region of southern California. There many would succumb to measles and other “European” diseases.