Butte County mining camps and foothill farms were an active front in the California Indian wars.
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They merged with renegades and Yahi fighters, called Mill Creeks, whose raids had terrified Maidu and Tehama County Farmers through the mid-1850s.
Making a strategic shift, in 1857, they acquired bases in the neighboring Yahi\'s Deer Creek Canyon.
Using centuries-old tribal tactics, Butte Creeks, the Mountain Maidu tribelets\' warriors, resisted settlers\' seizures of their territories.
Butte County mining camps and foothill farms were an active front in the California Indian wars