Just before dawn. Womens clam shell necklaces clicking gently against their dresses. Ma birds, deer or hunters supported their females meanwhile they raised their voices skyward. Between songs the singers offered prayers of thanks for the creation and the renewal of the world. Finally they stopped and walked addway under a full moon. And outside its gently from the shore and inside people slept and unaware that Crescent City men had established their own branch of californias expanding killing machine. Coast rangers and mountain rangers had been well armed by california governor and january 1854 californias state Quarter Master general had sent the judge 20 muskets. 10 rifles and 1,000 rifle cartridges. And 2,000 rifles and heavily armed militia men prepare to do one thing and one thing only. Kill californians. In the predawn hours of december 3 1st, 1854, as many as 116 militia men accompanied by an unknown number of auxiliaries surrounded the village and took it up in the brush. And