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  2. An American Genocide - Wikipedia

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    An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873 is a 2017 non-fiction book about the California genocide by history professor Benjamin Madley. Background and publication

  3. A town's name recalls the massacre of Indigenous people. Will ...

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    It's a sentiment echoed in the 2016 book "An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe." Author and UCLA historian Benjamin Madley wrote that those who committed ...

  4. List of Indian massacres in North America - Wikipedia

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    His list included 7,193 people who died from atrocities perpetrated by those of European descent, and 9,156 people who died from atrocities perpetrated by Native Americans. [5] In An American Genocide, The United States and the California Catastrophe, 1846–1873, historian Benjamin Madley recorded the numbers of killings of California Indians ...

  5. Round Valley Settler Massacres of 1856–1859 - Wikipedia

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    Historians Sherburne Cooke and Benjamin Madley suggest that these abductions were one of several instigators of violent conflict in the valley. [ 17 ] [ 18 ] William Brewer, a member of the California Geological Survey in the early 1860s, directly blamed child-stealing of Indian children for the rise in Indian/settler conflict and the ...

  6. California Native American Day is a reality check about the ...

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    Historian and author Benjamin Madley observes that between 1845 and 1870, California’s Native American population “plunged from perhaps 150,000 to 30,000. By 1880 census takers recorded just ...

  7. Native American students, educators have high hopes for bill ...

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    According to the journal “Reexamining the American Genocide Debate: Meaning, Historiography, and New Methods” by Benjamin Madley, in 1814, Illinois offered a $50 bounty “for the scalp of any ...

  8. Sacramento River massacre - Wikipedia

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    Handbook of North American Indians: California, Volume 8. Smithsonian Institution. Madley, Benjamin (2016). An American Genocide. Yale University Press. Martin, Thomas S. (1975). With Frémont to California and the Southwest 1845-1849. Ashland, OR: Lewis Osborne. Norton, Jack (1979). Genocide in Northwestern California: when our worlds cried ...

  9. Bloody Island massacre - Wikipedia

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    It is part of the wider California genocide. A number of the Pomo, an indigenous people of California, had been enslaved by two settlers, Andrew Kelsey and Charles Stone, and confined to one village, where they were starved and abused until they rebelled and murdered their captors. In response, the U.S. Cavalry killed at least 60 of the local Pomo.