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Captain Alek and his wife, Eliza, posed for a local photographer in 1897. Alek was born in the 1830’s in American Valley (Quincy) and was the “Yup-on-im,” or headman, for a Maidu village in the Keddie/Goat Hill area. His wife, Eliza Connet, was also born in the same area in the 1830’s. They had 10 children during their marriage. Aleck died in 1908; Eliza in 1921. From Plumas County: History of the Feather River Region, by Jim Cook.

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