Washington is a Long Way Off

The "Round Valley War" and the Limits of Federal Power on a California Indian Reservation

Bibliographic Data

ID10322012
AuthorsKevin Adams (0009-0003-6286-826X, California State University, East Bay, corresponding author), Khal Schneider (The authors are members of the history departments at Kent State University and California State University, East Bay, respectively.)
Year2011
Volume80
Issue4
Pages557-596
Publication date2011-10-20
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePacific Historical Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0030-8684 • E-ISSN: 1533-8584
PublisherUniversity of California Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1525/phr.2011.80.4.557
OpenAlexW1981360125
LanguageEN
Citations received1

In 1887 the Office of Indian Affairs requested that the Army evict the handful of white trespassers who claimed over 90 percent of the Round Valley Reservation in Northern California. The trespassers turned to local courts to block their evictions, and a county judge dispatched the Mendocino County sheriff to arrest the federal officer who persisted with his orders. The ensuing "Round Valley War" shows that, although elites associated with Indian affairs took federal supremacy on Indian Reservations for granted, and while historians have also tended to treat the West, and "Indian Country" in particular, as a domain where federal prerogatives reigned supreme, in the aftermath of the Civil War anti-statism and Democratic localism presented effective counterclaims to the coercive power of the federal state

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