Check out the first "official" edition of the Albion Monitor, a biweekly
internet newspaper published on the World Wide Web from Northern California.
The main feature, Round Valley, is the first comprehensive, in-depth
examination of the tragic events in Mendocino County to appear anywhere.
Taking full advantage of the hypertext format, over twenty separate articles
are available for you to explore, each providing greater details on a
particular aspect of the story.
The internet address (URL) of the Albion Monitor is:
http://www.monitor.net/monitor
The Round Valley Story is told in the following articles in the September 2,
1995 issue:
"Round Valley: What Really Happened" by Nicholas Wilson, with sidebars by
Mark Heimann and Jeff Elliott
What really happened on that lonely road where a Native American and a
deputy sheriff died? What really happened in the manhunt for Bear Lincoln?
Many residents of the Mendocino County reservation accuse law enforcement of
police brutality, racial and cultural prejudice, and civil rights violations
during the zealous manhunt for an accused cop-killer. They also believe
deputies mistakenly ambushed two innocent Indian men, killing one.
Comparisons are already being made between recent events at Round Valley and
the 1975 police behavior on the Pine Ridge Reservation, which ended with
Leonard Peltier convicted of killing FBI agents. Like Pine Ridge, police are
accused of warrantless searches, brutality to elders, pointing guns at
children false arrests -- and possibly framing an innocent man. Will the
1995 events of Round Valley also be remembered in shame?
"The Indian Wars are not Over " by George Snyder
Behind current events lies very fundamental conflicts between two
cultures.
"The Dark Legacy of Nome Cult " by Jeff Elliott
For almost 150 years, the valley has been witness to racism, murder,
and the unspeakable horrors of genocide. More of a concentration camp than
resettlement area, Natives were driven to the reservation from throughout
the Redwood Empire of Northern California.
Note: The Albion Monitor is best viewed with Netscape Navigator 1.1 or
above because it uses advanced page layout using HTML table formatting. (If
you want to be able to print it out and are using a Windows computer,
because of bugs in Navigator 1.1 you will need to download Netscape
Navigator 1.2 beta 6 from Netscape. It's free.)