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Burrill continued, " Robert Anderson ( 1909: 79 ) wrote, " Into the stream they leaped, but few got out alive.

Instead many dead bodies floated down the rapid current.

" One captive Indian woman named Mariah from Big Meadows ( Lake Almanor today ), was one of those who did escape ( Burrill, 2003: 39 ).

The Three Knolls battle is also described in Theodora Kroeber ’ s Ishi In Two Worlds ( 1961: 81-82 ), but more information has come to light.

It is estimated that with this massacre, Ishi's entire cultural group, the Yana / Yahi, may have been reduced to about sixty individuals.

From 1859 to 1911, Ishi's remote band became more and more infiltrated by non-Yahi Indian representatives, such as Wintun, Nomlaki and Pit River individuals.

In 1879, the infamous Indian boarding schools started in California.

The ranks of embittered reservation renegades who became the new " boys in the hills ", to quote Robert Anderson, became a direct function of what new attacks or removal campaigns that the volunteers and military troops elected to carry out against the northern California Indian tribes during that time.