Reservation Era Begins 1850-1878
1853
"Ox" Massacre (California)
U.S. military attack and massacre tribal people from the Four Creeks area of Tulare County, California. They are most likely people of the Yokut, Yowlumne, Wukchumni, Western Mono, and Tubatulabal tribes. U.S. military refer to this massacre as “our little difficulty" (“List of Indian massacres”).