Siskiyou County is located in inland northern California, adjacent to the Oregon border. As the fifth largest county in California by area, Siskiyou County features spectacular natural beauty and scenic cities and towns including Yreka, Mt. Shasta, Weed, Dunsmuir, McCloud, & Tulelake as well as Butte Valley, Scott Valley, Shasta Valley, & the Klamath River Corridor.

The Unity in the Church would continue and increase, pastors and intercessors from many churches working together, interdenominational prayer meetings would continue and increase. Continued healings of body, soul, and spirit for the many in need of healing in the mountain areas.

The Tyranny of Abuse would be broken: especially sexual abuse, domestic violence and spiritual abuse. The Church would not be afraid to confront these things in the natural and in the spiritual and would take their place alongside the broken for justice in these areas.

Reconciliation between the Church and the First Nations people would continue and there would be a great Harvest as a result.

Repentance to go deeper: The repentance for all sin done by all people through the ages here would begin in the Church and create an atmosphere for a great Revival in the Mountain Regions.

A Breaking of Generational Poverty: There would be a breakthrough for many and a setting free of generational poverty.

Call forth Righteousness in the Justice System: Righteous judges, police departments, sheriff and other justice workers would rise up in the mountain areas and true justice would be restored.

Continued Prayer mobilization in all the cities. Pray for leaders' encouragement to pray and witness in the public square more and more.

Blessing upon the all industry and commerce for the fear of God to attend the tourism industry and for godly leaders in governmental offices.

Revival for the Churches and a Spiritual Awakening to Christ in the cities.

Decrease in unemployment and the creation of new jobs. Pray for a release of entrepreneurial energy that leads to the creation of new businesses that are sustainable

Pray for Christian marriages to be a witness of life in Christ. Pray for marriage to be affirmed and protected in this Counties’ Cities.

Passion for Prayer: Pray God will rise up prayer leaders in these counties.

Pray for God to break the power of witchcraft/occultism: Ask God to break the strongholds of occultism/witchcraft through a revelation of His love & salvation to those involved in occult practices, witchcraft, new age movement.

History of Siskiyou County:

Gold was discovered in Siskiyou County around 1850. One group of prospectors found gold on the South Fork of the Salmon River above Cecilville in the spring of 1849. More was found on the flats near a ravine called Black Gulch in March of 1851 by Abraham Thompson. Six weeks after the discovery 2,000 miners had arrived in "Thompson's Dry Diggings" to test their luck.

Settlers moved into every part of the county during this era, displacing the native peoples by force and establishing roads, towns and businesses. The town of Yreka was incorporated in 1857. The area currently known as Mt. Shasta City was originally called Strawberry Valley because of the many wild berries found there. The town at the northern end of Scott Valley was first named Wheelocks after O.C. Wheelocks who built a trading post here in 1852, then called Ottiitiewa, the Indian name for the Scott Valley branch of the Shasta tribe, then finally renamed Fort Jones in 1860 after the US Army fort had been built. Happy Camp was named in 1851, reportedly by a group of miners "celebrating their survival of the hardships of the trip up the treacherous Klamath and of having found a spot where 'the pickings' seemed so promising, they named it 'Happy Camp in August of 1854, a party of eight made the first attempt to reach the summit of the celebrated Shasta Butte, or Mount Shasta, then thought to be the highest peak in California.

The most egregious violation of the whites against the Shasta Native People was an 1851 massacre on the lands of what is now the J & H Ranch. Government or settler leaders -- I am not sure which as the story is told both ways -- reached a treaty with the Shastas. The Indians were then invited to a great feast and the meat was loaded with strychnine. Those who did not die from the poison were shot trying to escape and there were 3000 Indian deaths that day. It was reported in local newspapers, although the government to this day denies the event took place. In the meantime Shasta People are in conflict with Karuk People over land and there is a hostile division within the Shasta Tribe itself. I don't know that all of this needs print, but prayer should be made for reconciliation within the tribes as well as between native and immigrant peoples -- and the massacre should be acknowledged.

The Siskiyou County area made worldwide headlines during the Modoc war of 1872-1873 when a small band held off the U. S. Army in the area near Tulelake, now known as Lava Beds National Monument and Captain Jack's Stronghold. Even through the Modocs were greatly outnumbered, it took the army more than a year to squash the rebellion. This was the last armed resistance by California Indians. The Modoc War, also known as the Lava Beds War, was an armed conflict between the Native American Modoc tribe and the United States Army in southern Oregon and northern California from 1872 - 1873. The Modoc War was the last of the Indian Wars to occur in California or Oregon.
 

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