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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.
The Indian indenture system was a system of indenture by which two million [42] Indians called coolies were transported to various colonies of European powers to provide labour for the (mainly sugar) plantations. It started from the end of slavery in 1833 and continued until 1920.
The money came from a 2018 voter-approved parks and water bond that included $60 million for competitive grants to acquire Native American natural, cultural and historic resources in California.
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 ...