Mo-Lay-yo our Treaty Signer

>On August 1,1851 Mo-lay-yo the Nopani(Leader)from Kimsewa or modern day Pulga went to John Bidwell's Ranch along with nine headmen to sign Treaty G. It's promises included 200 head of beef cattle, to average weight of five hundred pounds, seventy-five sacks of flour one hundred pounds each (within two years of the signing). Also, goods such as calico cloth, needles, thread, scissors, blankets, one thousand pounds of iron. One hundred pounds of steel, mules, ploughs and one hundred milk cows were also guaranteed. The most important item was the 227 square mile (about half the area of San Antonio, Texas) tract of land outlined in the treaty as the permanent home for the tribes who agreed to the treaty. Through 1851-1852 the U.S government negotiated 18 treaties with promises of reserving eight million acers of land for Native Americans. But later, the California State Senate and the Governor objected to reservation of land for Indians since it might be for agricultural or gold bearing value. Secretly the U.S. Senate rejected the treaties on July 8,1852. It was until 1905, over fifty years later would the injunctions of secrecy be removed, and the unratified treaties brought to light. The Konkow Maidus then fled further into the hills after the lies and trickery from the U.S government over the treaties started an uproar with the local tribes. The Maidu were starving, unable to hunt on their land they would rebel against the Whites and do what they had to survive.