The war began from incidents between local settlers and local Indians and a rumor of an Indian uprising against the miners along the Klamath River by the Yurok and Karok Native American tribes.
Some of the Indians, mainly a group called the "Red Caps", refused to disarm, and hostilities began between them and the miners.
[3] The massacres of Native peoples along the Klamath River are considered to be part of the California Genocide.
[4] The U.S. government issued an Executive Order creating the Yurok Reservation along the Lower Klamath River, compelling the indigenous population to cease resistance and relocate.
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