Owens Valley Indian War | |||||||
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Part of the American Indian Wars and American Civil War | |||||||
Sierra Nevada mountains viewed from Owens Valley (1939) | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
United States |
Mono Shoshone Kawaiisu Tübatulabal | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
William Mayfield † George S. Evans Herman Noble Moses A. McLaughlin |
Captain George Joaquin Jim Shondow † Tinemba | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
2-3 Companies of 2nd Regiment California Volunteer Cavalry 60 Mayfield's militia | +500 Mono people | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
60 | 200 |
The Owens Valley War was fought between 1862 and 1863 by the United States Army and American settlers against the Mono people and their Shoshone and Kawaiisu allies in the Owens Valley of California and the southwestern Nevada border region.[1] The removal of a large number of the Owens River indigenous Californians to Fort Tejon in 1863 was considered the end of the war. Minor hostilities continued intermittently until 1867.