Editing Aleuts (section)

===Aleut genocide against the Nicoleño Tribe in California===
According to Russian American Company (RAC) records which were translated and published in the ''Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology'', a 200-ton otter hunting ship named ''[[Il’mena]]'' with a mixed-nationality crew, including a majority Aleut contingent, was involved in conflict resulting in a massacre of the indigenous natives of [[San Nicolas Island]].<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://www.nps.gov/subjects/islandofthebluedolphins/upload/JCGBA_34-1_Morris-etal_final.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://www.nps.gov/subjects/islandofthebluedolphins/upload/JCGBA_34-1_Morris-etal_final.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live|title=Murder, Massacre, and Mayhem on the California Coast, 1814 –1815: Newly Translated Russian American Company Documents Reveal Company Concern Over Violent Clashes|year=2014|author= Morris, Susan L.Farris, Glenn J.Schwartz, Steven J.Wender, Irina Vladi L.Dralyuk, Boris|journal=Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology | volume =34|issue= 1 | pages= 81–100}}</ref>

In 1814, to obtain more of the commercially valuable [[otter]] pelts, a Russian company brought a party of conscripted Aleut hunters to the coastal island of San Nicolas, near the Alta California-Baja California border. The locally resident [[Nicoleño|Nicoleño nation]] sought a payment from the Aleut hunters for the large number of otters being killed in the area. Disagreement arose, turning violent; an Aleut was killed, and in retaliation Aleuts killed a number of Nicoleño (the exact amount is unknown).  In 1835, the remaining Nicoleños were removed from the island, except for one woman and possibly her child, who were left behind.   In 1853 that woman, later christened Juana Maria, was found and taken to Santa Barbara.  She may have been the last living Nicoleñan, as what happened to the others after they were brought to the mainland is unknown ([[Juana Maria]], ''the Lone Woman of San Nicolas'').<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://www.nps.gov/subjects/islandofthebluedolphins/upload/JCGBA_34-1_Morris-etal_final.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://www.nps.gov/subjects/islandofthebluedolphins/upload/JCGBA_34-1_Morris-etal_final.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live|title=Murder, Massacre, and Mayhem on the California Coast, 1814 –1815: Newly Translated Russian American Company Documents Reveal Company Concern Over Violent Clashes|year=2014|author= Morris, Susan L.Farris, Glenn J.Schwartz, Steven J.Wender, Irina Vladi L.Dralyuk, Boris|journal=Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology | volume =34|issue= 1 | pages= 81–100}}</ref><ref>https://www.nps.gov/subjects/islandofthebluedolphins/upload/JCGBA_34-1_Morris-etal_final.pdf /, "Life in the Village": Chapter 7, National Park Service, Island of the Blue Dolphins, date written is unknown but the page noted it was last updated February 25, 2020, accessed July 6, 2024</ref>