Who killed Isaac Ebey who once rode through the Farm and Gardens’ sites? Some say the Tlingit who inhabited the panhandle of Alaska: Haines/Skagway to Juneau to Ketchikan Juneau to Stanwood is a 1,200-mile row! 165 years ago, the Tlingit (Kake) traveled by canoe to a site 17 miles due west of the History Farm on a mission of vengeance. Some say seeking revenge for the death of 1 of their chiefs and 27 other tribal members, they knocked on
Isaac Ebey’s door on Whidbey Island, where the 1st homesteader on Whidbey Island was called out of the house, killed, and beheaded. His family escaped to a blockhouse on the ridge; perhaps because the Tlingit, led by a female chief/ship captain, showed some mercy. Issac’s killers were never caught, but his head (and scalp) were later returned. There is question as to whether the raiders were Haida (as inscribed on a marker at Ebey’s Landing on Whidbey Island) or Tlingit. History is unclear partly because British authorities demurred pursuing or attacking Russian Territory peoples as they passed through Victoria’s British waters. Murky waters – some say history is lies perpetrated on the dead. Can you imagine organizing, provisioning, and finding 60 able bodies to row to and then back from LA for no pay? What force drew these men and women so far for so much effort?
https://meyersign.com/2021/09/triumph-and-tragedy-on-the-prairie-the-ebeys-of-coupeville/
https://www.historylink.org/File/5302
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_N._Ebey
https://sites.kpc.alaska.edu/jhaighalaskahistory/timeline/
https://exemplore.com/paranormal/Haunted-Paradise-Isaac-Ebey-and-Whidbey-Island
https://www.dublinohiohistoricalsociety.org/Ebeys.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tlingit
https://www.nps.gov/ebla/index.htm
http://www.fortwiki.com/Ebey_Blockhouse
https://windermerewhidbeyisland.com/2021/08/30/crockett-blockhouse
https://sites.kpc.alaska.edu/jhaighalaskahistory/timeline/
https://www.whidbeynewstimes.com/news/historian-fails-in-scalp-hunt/
http://www.plc215.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Haida-or-Tlingit.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Na-Dene_languages#/media/File:Na-Dene_languages.svg
The most likely reason the British did not intervene to stop the attacking Indigenous as they rowed home, was that they were citizens of a neutral country of:
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