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18days, Tsilhqot’in warriors also attacked a pack-train and a settler living in the region witha Tsilhqot’in woman, effectively removing all white people from Tsilhqot’in territory. 14165. The causes of these events have been variously described, and it is likely notpossible to ascribe the conflict to any one factor. 142However,The entire body of historical evidence reveals a statement by the Tsilhqot’inpeople that the road would go no farther and that there would be no furtherEuropean presence in their territory. The use of their land was clearly anissue. 14366. Militia forces were unsuccessful in pursuit of the Tsilhqot’in warriors in “Chilcotencountry”, a region described by Governor Seymour as “almost unknown to white menuntil recent events”. 144In August 1864, Tsilhqot’in war chiefs “surrendered undercircumstances that remain to this day the subject of disagreement and debate” andwere subsequently tried, convicted and hanged. 145reported to be “We meant war, not murder!” 146Lha Ts’as?in’s final words were67. In 1993 Judge Sarich’s Report on the Cariboo-Chilcotin Justice Inquiryrecommended that a posthumous pardon be granted to the Tsilhqot’in chiefs sentencedto their deaths as a consequence of the Tsilhqot’in War. The Attorney General forBritish Columbia subsequently apologized to the Tsilhqot'in people for wrongs done tothem during and after the War. 14768. In 1999, the Province unveiled a memorial plaque marking the gravesite of fiveTsilhqot'in chiefs who were executed in the aftermath of the Chilcotin War. In part theplaque reads:141 Trial Decision, paras. 271-73, 277, 279.142 Trial Decision, paras. 281-83.143 Trial Decision, para. 284. See also paras. 281, 286.144 Trial Decision, para. 602.145 Trial Decision, para. 278.146 Trial Decision, para. 278.147 Trial Decision, para. 329.