Leschi: Justice in our Time
HISTORICAL FIGURESPRELUDE TO WARINDIAN WARS 1855-56LESCHI ON TRAILLESCHI'S LEGACYTEACHING
 
Prominent individuals caught up in the conflict
The circumstances leading to heightened hostilities
The events of the Indian Wars
A Nisqually leader is tried for murder
The legend continues into the present
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INDIAN WARS OF 1855-56
War breaks out between the Territorial Government, Settler's and Indians - it is a clash of cultures.

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October 3, 1855
Major Granville Haller marches for Yakama country.

October 6, 1855
Major Granville Haller, with just over 100 men, fights at Toppenish Creek, and is defeated by a force of superior numbers.
READ HENRIETTA HALLER'S VIEW OF LIFE IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST

October 22, 1855
Charles Mason
Charles Mason
Leschi pays a visit to acting Governor Charles Mason in Olympia, to inform him that war might be imminent.

October 24, 1855
Eaton's Rangers, commanded by Capt. Charles Eaton, are dispatched to "escort" Leschi back to Olympia. When they arrive at his farm, they find a plow standing abandoned in mid-furrow. Leschi has gone into hiding.

October 27, 1855
Eaton's Rangers battle a group of hostile Indians near Connell's Prairie, losing two militia men, Michael Conner and James McAlister.

October 28, 1855
Eight or nine settlers are killed in the White River Massacre. John King, a boy just shy of seven years old, and his siblings survive the attack, although his mother and stepfather are killed. Sometime in the second decade of the 20th century, King apparently gave an account of his experience to Ezra Meeker.
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October 31, 1855
Major Gabriel Rains marches for Yakama country. At upper White and Green rivers, Abram Benton Moses and Joseph Miles of Captain Maurice Maloney's command are fatally shot.
 
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