Revival History

Vintage photo of the Irula women of the Nilgiri Hills in Tamil Nadu, India, 1871, Irulas Tribe: Irula tribe is a Dravidian ethnic group settling in the state of Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Karnataka. In the Tamil language, the Irula means "people of darkness." This could refer to their dark-coloured skin or since all important events of the tribe traditionally took place in the darkness/night. A study conducted by Yelmen et al (2019) found that the Irula people were the closest likely proxy for the indigenous Ancient Ancestral South Indian, one of the presumed founder and autochthonous original Indian populations. The DNA analysis (2018) of a skeleton from the Indus Valley Civilisation found in Rakhigarhi showed a greater association with the Irula people than any other modern ethnic group in India. According to the Census 2011, the tribe population is around 200,000; 189,621 in Tamil Nadu 23,721 in Kerala 10,259 in Karnataka. The people of the Irula tribe are called Irular and th...

 The Wickenburg Massacre was the November 5, 1871, murder of six stagecoach passengers en route westbound from Wickenburg, Arizona Territory, headed for San Bernardino, California, on the La Paz road. Around mid-morning, about six miles from Wickenburg, the stagecoach was supposedly attacked by 15 Yavapai warriors, who were sometimes mistakenly called Apache-Mohaves, from the Date Creek Reservation. Six men, including the driver, were shot and killed. Among them was Frederick Wadsworth Loring, a young writer from Boston working as a correspondent for Appleton's Journal assigned to cover a cartographic expedition led by Lieutenant George Wheeler. One male passenger, William Kruger, and the only female passenger, Mollie Sheppard, managed to escape. According to Kruger, Sheppard eventually died of the wounds she received. For a time the identity of the attackers was disputed. Over the next two years, General George Crook conducted an investigation into the attack, and eventually ident...