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The California genocide was a series of genocidal massacres of the indigenous peoples of California by United States soldiers and settlers during the 19th century. It began following the American conquest of California in the Mexican–American War and the subsequent influx of American settlers to the region as a result of the California gold rush.
"The Temecula Massacre", California and the Indian Wars, The California State Military Museum U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Temecula Massacre Cemetery 33°28′54″N 117°05′27″W / 33.48168207°N 117.0907281°W / 33.48168207; -117.0907281
White immigrants flooded into northern California in 1848 due to the California Gold Rush, increasing the non-Indian population of California from 13,000 to well over 300,000 in little more than a decade. [1] [2] The sudden influx of miners and settlers on top of the nearly 300,000 Native Americans living in the area strained space and resources.
California genocide: California, United States 1846 1873 9,492 –16,094 [336] [337] [N 6] 120,000 [337] [N 7] The California genocide was a series of systematized killings of thousands of Indigenous peoples of California by United States government agents and private citizens in the 19th century.
The Indian Island Massacre: Place, Labor, and Environmental Change on California's Northwest (MA thesis). St. Louis University. Madley, Benjamin (2016). An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846–1873. Lamar Series in Western History. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press. pp. 282– 84.
There are more than 150 documented Missing and Murdered Indigenous Person cases in California, according to the Sovereign Bodies Institute.
Jul. 29—Filmmaker and TV producer Amanda Erickson wanted to tell the shocking story of murdered and missing Indigenous women in a way that made an impact, that might actually make people in ...
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