Events left the Indians little choice but to fight for what was justly theirs.
June 1851 Seventeen Rogue Indians were killed at Port Orford, on the coast. Rogue Indians attacked the U.S. Army in the Rogue River Valley. Seventeen Indians died, 33 more were killed later, before the Army moved on, taking 30 women and children prisoner.
August 1852 starving Rogue Indians raided a settler's cabin killing two men.
August 6, 1852 fearful settlers in Jacksonville Oregon hung two innocent Shasta Indian men, and later hung a seven-year-old Indian boy, among shouts of "hang him, hang him, exterminate them."
August 23, 1852 General Joseph Lane and a band of settlers killed 15 Rogues and wounded several more. Four non-Indians died.
