‘They are going to be at peace’: California university returns remains of massacred Wiyot Tribe members

Remains of at least 20 members believed to have been killed in the Indian Island Massacre of 1860 will be returned by UCB

The most vulnerable members of the Wiyot Tribe were asleep the morning of 26 February 1860, when a band of white men slipped into their northern California villages under darkness and slaughtered them.

Many of the children, women and elderly slain in what became known as the Indian Island Massacre, had their eternal rest disturbed when their graves were dug up and their skeletons and the artifacts buried with them placed in a museum.