Locations include the Cyclopean Islands east off Sicily and near Trentino in northern Italy ; Victoria in Australia ; Kerguelen Island in the Indian Ocean ; in the Lake Superior copper district of Michigan, Bergen Hill, New Jersey, Golden, Colorado, and at Searles Lake, California in the United States ; and at Cape Blomidon, Nova Scotia and Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec in Canada ; and in Iceland.

On the other hand, in the Bay Area of California, Tomales Bay High and Sequoia High have retired their Indian mascots.

They also hoped, after peace was made with Mexico, to run a railroad to the Gulf of California to give " access to the East Indian, Peruvian and Chilean trade.

* February 26 – White settlers massacred a band of Wiyot Indians at the village of Tuluwat on Indian Island near Eureka, California.

Sutter's Fort State Historic Park is a state-protected park in Sacramento, California which includes Sutter's Fort and the California State Indian Museum.

* California State Indian Museum

Wilson was a self-made man who was orphaned in Nashville, Tennessee, came to Alta California as a fur trapper and adventurer during the American Indian Wars before marrying Ramona Yorba, the daughter of a California land baron, Bernardo Yorba, and made his fortune through the wedding dowry, receiving Rancho Jurupa, settling what would become California's San Gabriel Valley, after the Mexican American War.

Benjamin Wilson was also a well known Indian fighter who served as justice of the peace for the Mexican authorities and it was while hunting down renegade Indians that he discovered what is present day Big Bear, California which received that name because Wilson and his posse lassoed and killed over thirty grizzly bears while passing through.

As dictated by southern Congressional members the route ran from St. Louis, Missouri through Arkansas, Oklahoma Indian Territory, Texas, New Mexico Territory, and across the Sonora Desert before ending in San Francisco, California.

* Wildflowers – Indian pink, Soap plant, California Poppy, Miner's lettuce, Purple Chinese Houses, Purple milkweed, Pacific Starflower, Western buttercup, Pineapple weed

Davenport then reached the semifinals at Indian Wells, California and Miami and won the title in Lucerne.

Davenport then reached the semifinals of the tournament in Indian Wells, California, where she lost to Steffi Graf.

She then won the tournaments in Oklahoma City and Indian Wells, California for the first time in her career.

Davenport then lost in the Indian Wells, California, final to Hingis, after defeating Steffi Graf, and in the Miami, she fell in the quarterfinals to Anna Kournikova.

Two events later, at the Indian Wells, California tournament, Davenport again defeated Hingis and won the doubles title with Morariu over Anna Kournikova and Natasha Zvereva in the final.

Davenport then won in Tokyo and lost in the Indian Wells, California final to Clijsters.

At the tournament in Indian Wells, California, in March, Davenport made history by defeating world no.

At the March tournament in Indian Wells, California, Davenport lost in the fourth round to Martina Hingis.

At the Tier I Pacific Life Open in Indian Wells, California, Davenport lost in the quarterfinals to Jelena Janković, 6 – 2, retired.

De Anza heard of a California Indian called Sebastian Tarabal who had fled from Mission San Gabriel to Sonora and took him as guide.

The Fort Mojave Indian Reservation includes parts of California, Arizona, and Nevada.

The Colorado River Indian Reservation includes parts of California and Arizona and is shared by members of the Chemehuevi, Hopi, and Navajo peoples.

The Quechan ( Quechan: Kwtsaan-“ those who descended ”, spelled “ kwuh-tsan ”, also in English Yuma, Yuman, Kwtsan, Kwtsaan ) are a Native American tribe who live on the Fort Yuma Indian Reservation on the lower Colorado River in Arizona and California just north of the border with Mexico.

The University of Southern California Trojan Marching Band sousaphones play John Williams ' " Imperial March " from Star Wars when crossing streets on their way to and from performances on the USC campus.

* California Water Wars

“ The Samguk sagi and the Unification Wars .” Ph. D. dissertation, University of California, Berkeley.

Toward those ends, the paper supported efforts to expand the city's water supply by acquiring the watershed of the Owens Valley, an effort fictionalized in the Roman Polanski movie Chinatown, which is also covered in California Water Wars.

The valley provides water to the Los Angeles Aqueduct, the source of half of the water for Los Angeles, and is infamous as the scene of one of the fiercest and longest running episodes of the California Water Wars.

* Western Times and Water Wars, John Walton, University of California Press, ( 1992 ).

* California Water Wars

The 1994 Robot Wars in San Francisco, California featured three different ' games ' for each of three robot weight classes:

The California Water Wars were a series of conflicts between the city of Los Angeles, farmers and ranchers in the Owens Valley of Eastern California, and environmentalists.

* Chinatown, a 1974 film that features a fictionalized version of the California Water Wars.

* California Water Wars

The Modoc War was the last of the Indian Wars to occur in California or Oregon.

* Robert Towne made numerous references to Mulholland, the California Water Wars, the aqueduct, and the St. Francis Dam disaster in his screenplay for the 1974 Neo-noir movie Chinatown.

By the 1920s, the aggressive pursuits of the water rights and the diversion of the Owens River precipitated the outbreak of violence known as the California Water Wars.

* California Water Wars

* The period of Indian Wars and mining claims inspired by the California Gold Rush and later facilitated by the Mining Act of 1872 ;

* California Water Wars

Although the Nootka Conventions theoretically opened the Pacific Northwest coast from northern California to Alaska to British colonization, the advent of the Napoleonic Wars distracted any efforts towards this ( as recommended by Vancouver at the time ) and the proposed settlement colony in the region was to be abandoned.

Austin and her husband were involved in the local California Water Wars, in which the water of Owens Valley was eventually drained to supply Los Angeles.

But instead of completely dismissing the idea of a simulator, the company decided to make use of a partnership between Disney and George Lucas, the creator of Star Wars, that began in 1986 with the opening of Captain EO ( a 3-D musical film starring Michael Jackson ) at the California park.

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