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The Act for the Government and Protection of Indians (Chapter 133, Cal. Stats., April 22, 1850), nicknamed the Indian Indenture Act was enacted by the first session of the California State Legislature and signed into law by the 1st Governor of California, Peter Hardeman Burnett.
The Act for the Government and Protection of Indians was passed in California in 1850, It provided that: "White persons or proprietors could apply to the Justice of Peace for the removal of Indians from lands in the white person's possession" [21] "Any person could go before a Justice of Peace to obtain Indian children for indenture.
California also amended the Act for the Government and Protection of the Indians (1850) which expanded the permitted length of indentured servitude, revoked the requirement for parental consent, and permitted the indenture of “orphaned” children. [6] During this time, the Nome Cult Farm was renamed Round Valley Reservation.
Within this Act, Native children could be obtained for indenture, convicted Native American could be hired out of jail and Indians could not testify for or against whites. This legalized a form of slavery, of forced labor in California . 24,000 to 27,000 Californian Natives were taken as forced laborers by settlers including 4,000 to 7,000 ...
The Indian indenture system was a system of indentured servitude, by which more than 1.6 million workers [1] from British India were transported to labour in European colonies, as a substitute for slave labour, following the abolition of the trade in the early 19th century.
The Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 became law 100 years ago. ... Tribal leaders gathered Saturday afternoon at the World Peace Rose Garden at the California state Capitol to commemorate the ...
Gov. Gavin Newsom has set in motion the largest land return in California history, declaring his support for the return of ancestral lands to the Shasta Indian Nation that were seized a century ...
Under Mexican rule in California, Indians were subjected to de facto enslavement under a system of peonage by the white elite. While in 1850, California formally entered the Union as a free state, with respect to the issue of slavery, the practice of Indian indentured servitude was not outlawed by the California Legislature until 1863. [22]