He Unleashed a California Massacre. Should This School Be Named for Him?

Maybe we should start naming things after the Peace Makers, not the kind that go bang.

"'What would removing the Hastings name accomplish?" Mr. Faigman wrote...."

The same thing that removing Jackson from the twenty dollar bill would accomplish. Both nothing and everything.

PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."“It’s awful,” said Colonel Lewenhaupt, a lawyer who grew up in the Bay Area and spent a career prosecuting and defending U.S. Army soldiers. But he said he agreed with Mr. Faigman that the Hastings name should be maintained. “I do not think the renaming will benefit the institution,” he said.

In Round Valley, Deb Hutt, a Yuki tribeswoman and the sister of Ms. Oandasan, says she wonders why descendants of the Hastings family have never apologized. While sitting at a picnic table across from a tribal gas station, Ms. Hutt said she sometimes tried to imagine what Round Valley would be like had Mr. Hastings and other white settlers not taken over the valley.

Buffered by mountains, the Yuki were relatively undisturbed by Spanish or Mexican conquerors. It took the huge and sudden migration of the Gold Rush for the tribe to be confronted by unmerciful invaders.

“We were their hunt,” Ms. Hutt said of the men who led the Hastings massacres. “And what we lost was more than lives.”