Martial Law in Yakima

To download from the iTunes Store, get iTunes now. Martial arts instructor B. Reynolds thought he knew Yakima from his growing years there. But when he returns to visit the grave of his own instructor, mysteriously slain a month earlier, Reynolds is drawn into a morass of danger and intrigue. Why do former mob kingpin Vince Aselmo and his enforcers have the run of the town? Are they responsible for the death of Reynolds' instructor? Where is the police presence when murder and intimidation rule the streets?

Or are the police part of the problem? Reynolds, each day adds to the dangers he can't seem to avoid. But balanced against this are the order and sanity of the martial arts dojo, where he meets Charlene Locke, a local newspaper reporter who changes his life in a direct and dramatic way. Martial Law in Yakima is written with vitality and narrative force.

Meanwhile, the widely-publicized discovery of gold in Yakama territory prompted an influx of unruly prospectors who traveled, unchecked, across the newly defined tribal lands, to the growing consternation of Indian leaders. In two of these prospectors were killed by Qualchin, the nephew of Kamiakin , after it was discovered they'd raped a Yakama woman. On September 20, , Bureau of Indian Affairs agent Andrew Bolon , hearing of the death of the prospectors at the hands of Qualchin, departed for the scene on horseback to investigate but was intercepted by the Yakima chief Shumaway who warned him Qualchin was too dangerous to confront.

Heeding Shumaway's warning, Bolon turned back and began the ride home. En route he came upon a group of Yakima traveling south and decided to ride along with them. One of the members of this group was Mosheel, Shumaway's son.

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Though a number of Yakima in the traveling party protested, their objections were overruled by Mosheel who invoked his regal status. Discussions about Bolon's fate took place over much of the day Bolon, who did not speak Yakima, was unaware of the conspiracy unfolding among his traveling companions.

During a rest stop, as Bolon and the Yakama were eating lunch, Mosheel and at least three other Yakima set upon him with knives. Bolon yelled out in a Chinook dialect , "I did not come to fight you! When Shumaway heard of Bolon's death he immediately sent an ambassador to inform the U. Army garrison at Fort Dalles, before calling for the arrest of his son, Mosheel, who he said should be turned over to the territorial government to forestall the American retaliation he felt would likely occur. A Yakama council overruled the chief, however, siding with Shumaway's older brother, Kamiakin, who called for war preparations.

Meanwhile, district commander Gabriel Rains had received Shumaway's ambassador and, in response to the news of Bolon's death, ordered Major Granville O. Haller to move out with an expeditionary column from Fort Dalles. Haller's force was met and turned back at the edge of Yakama territory by a large group of Yakama warriors.

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As Haller withdrew, his company was engaged and routed by the Yakama at the Battle of Toppenish Creek. The death of Bolon, and the United States defeat at Toppenish Creek, caused panic across the territory with fears that an Indian uprising was in progress. Rains, who had just federal troops under his immediate command, urgently appealed to Acting Governor Charles Mason Isaac Stevens was still returning from Washington, D. The composition of these companies to be as follows: The greatest exertions should be made to raise and equip these companies at once.

Meanwhile, Oregon Governor George Law Curry mobilized a cavalry regiment of men, a portion of which crossed into Washington territory in early November.

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As Rains was mustering his forces in Pierce County , Leschi , a Nisqually chief who was half Yakama, had sought to forge an alliance among the Puget Sound tribes to bring war to the doorstep of the territorial government. Starting with just the 31 warriors in his own band, Leschi rallied more than Muckleshoot, Puyallup, and Klickitat, though other tribes rebuffed Leschi's overtures.

In response to news of Leschi's growing army, a volunteer troop of 18 dragoons , known as Eaton's Rangers, was dispatched to arrest the Nisqually chief. The rest of Eaton's Rangers were besieged inside an abandoned cabin, where they would remain for the next four days before escaping. The next morning Muckleshoot and Klickitat warriors raided three settler cabins along the White River, killing nine men and women.

Many settlers had left the area in advance of the raid, having been warned of danger by Chief Kitsap of the neutral Suquamish. Details of the raid on the White River settlements were told by John King, one of the four survivors, who was seven years old at the time and was - along with two younger siblings - spared by the attackers and told to head west. The King children eventually came upon a local Native American known to them as Tom. I told him of the massacre.

He said he suspected something of the kind, as he had heard firing in that direction.

He told me that I should get the children and take them to his wigwam, adding that 'when the moon was high' he would take us to Seattle in his canoe. His squaw was as kind and amiable as could be, and did all in her power to make it pleasant for us, but the children were very shy. She set out dried fish and whortleberries for our repast, but nothing she could do would induce them to go to her.

Our hunger was so great that the various and penetrating odors permeating the food she had brought us was no bar to our relish for it as I remember. Leschi would later express regret for the raid on the White River settlements and post-war accounts given by Nisqually in his band affirmed that the chief had rebuked his commanders who had organized the attack. Army Captain Maurice Maloney, in command of a reinforced company of men, had previously been sent east to cross the Naches Pass and enter the Yakama homeland from the rear.

Finding the pass blocked with snow he began returning west in the days following the raid on the White River settlements. On November 2, Leschi's men were spotted by the vanguard of Maloney's returning column, and fell back to the right bank of the White River. On November 3 Maloney ordered a force of men under Lt. William Slaughter to cross the White River and engage Leschi's forces. Attempts to ford the river, however, were stopped by the fire of Indian sharpshooters.

One American soldier was killed in a back-and-forth exchange of gunfire. Accounts of Indian fatalities range from one reported by a Puyallup Indian, Tyee Dick, after the end of the war to 30 claimed in Slaughter's official report , though the lower number may be more credible one veteran of the battle, Daniel Mounts, would later be appointed Indian agent to the Nisqually and heard Tyee Dick's casualty numbers confirmed by Nisqually.

At four o'clock, when it was becoming too dark for the Americans to cross the White River, Leschi's men fell back three miles to their camp on the banks of the Green River , jubilant at having successfully prevented the American crossing Tyee Dick would later describe the battle as hi-ue he-he, hi-ue he-he - "lots and lots of fun". The next morning Maloney advanced with men across the White River and attempted to engage Leschi at his camp at the Green River, but poor terrain made the advance untenable and he quickly called off the attack.

Another skirmish on November 5 resulted in five American fatalities, but no Indian deaths.

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Unable to make any headway, Maloney began his withdrawal from the area on November 7, arriving at Fort Steilacoom two days later. Kamiakan had not expected a force of the size Rains had mustered and the Yakama, anticipating a quick victory of the kind they had recently scored at Toppenish Creek, had brought their families. Kamiakan now ordered the women and children to flee as he and the warriors fought a delaying action.

While leading a reconnaissance of the American lines, Kamiakan and a group of fifty mounted warriors encountered an American patrol which gave chase. Kamiakan and his men escaped across the Yakima River; the Americans were unable to keep up and two soldiers drowned before the pursuit was called off.

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That evening Kamiakan called a war council where it was decided the Yakama would make a stand in the hills of Union Gap. Rains began advancing on the hills the next morning, his progress slowed by small groups of Yakama employing hit and run tactics to delay the American advance against the main Yakama force. At four o'clock in the afternoon Maj. Haller, backed by a howitzer bombardment, led a charge against the Yakama position.

Kamiakan's forces scattered into the brush at the mouth of Ahtanum Creek and the American offensive was called off. In Kamiakan's camp, plans for a night raid against the American force were drawn up but abandoned. Instead, early the next day, the Yakama continued their defensive retreat, tiring American forces who eventually broke off the engagement. In the last day of fighting the Yakama suffered their only fatality, a warrior killed by U.

Army Indian Scout Cutmouth John. Rains continued to Saint Joseph's Mission which had been abandoned, the priests having joined the Yakama in flight. During a search of the grounds, Rains men discovered a barrel of gunpowder, leading them to erroneously believe the priests had been secretly arming the Yakama.

A riot among the soldiers ensued and the mission was burned to the ground.

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With snow beginning to fall, Rains ordered a withdrawal, and the column returned to Fort Dalles. By the end of November, federal troops had returned to the White River area. A detachment of the 4th Infantry Regiment, under Lt. Slaughter, accompanied by militia under Capt. Gilmore Hays, searched the area from which Maloney had previously withdrawn and engaged Nisqually and Klickitat warriors at Biting's Prairie on November 25, , resulting in several casualties but no decisive outcome. The next day an Indian sharpshooter killed two of Slaughter's troops. Finally, on December 3, as Slaughter and his men were camped for the night on Brannan's Prairie, the force was fired upon and Slaughter killed.

News of the death of Slaughter greatly demoralized settlers in the principal towns. Slaughter and his wife were a popular young couple among the settlers and the legislature adjourned for a day of mourning. In late November Gen. Wool arrived from California and assumed control of the United States side in the conflict, making his headquarters at Fort Vancouver. Wool was widely considered pompous and arrogant and had been criticized by some for blaming much of the western conflicts between Natives and whites on whites. After assessing the situation in Washington, he decided that Rains' approach of chasing bands of Yakama around the territory would lead to an inevitable defeat.

Wool planned to wage a static war by using the territorial militia to fortify the major settlements while better trained and equipped U.

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Army regulars moved-in to occupy traditional Indian hunting and fishing grounds, starving the Yakama into surrender. To Wool's chagrin, however, Oregon Governor Curry decided to launch a preemptive and largely unprovoked attack against the eastern tribes of the Walla Walla , Palouse, Umatilla , and Cayuse who had, up to that point, remained cautiously neutral in the conflict Curry believed it was only a matter of time before the eastern tribes entered the war and sought to gain a strategic advantage by attacking first.

Oregon militia, under Lt. James Kelley, crossed into the Walla Walla Valley in December, skirmishing with the tribes and, eventually, capturing Peopeomoxmox and several other chiefs. The eastern tribes were now firmly involved in the conflict, a state-of-affairs Wool blamed squarely on Curry. In a letter to a friend, Wool commented that, [13]. It is these shocking barbarities that gives us more trouble than all else and is constantly increasing the ranks of the hostiles.

Meanwhile, on December 20, Washington Governor Isaac Stevens had finally made it back to the territory after a perilous journey that involved a final, mad dash across the hostile Walla Walla Valley.