Joaquin Jim

Joaquin Jim (183? – 1863 or 1866) was an Eastern Mono war leader of the Owens Valley Indian War. Joaquin Jim, implacable war leader of the Mono allies of the Owens Valley Paiute, never surrendered to American forces or made peace with them, but reported to have ceased warfare against them in 1864.

Joaquin Jim was an Eastern Mono from what is now Big Pine, California.

Two accounts of his death are incompatible. One report has him being injured in the war and killed in the San Joaquin Valley in April 1863. This seems unlikely since it was prior to the McLaughlin Campaign, when Joaquin Jim was still leading a band in the upper valley.

Another, Owens Valley Paiute report, has him dying in the winter of 1865-66, in Long Valley at the Casa Diablo Hot Springs some years after the war after eating a tribal delicacy. The white settlers claim he was killed by one of his own warriors.

Today descendants of Joaquin Band are enrolled members of the Bigpine paiute tribe, Bishop paiute tribe and Timbisha Shoshone tribe .