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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.
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 ...
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 ...
Over 50,000 indigenous people live in Los Angeles alone. [60] [61] However, the majority of Indigenous people in California today do not identify with the tribes indigenous to the state, rather they are of Indigenous Mexican or Central American ancestry, or of tribes from other parts of the United States, such as the Cherokee or Navajo.
The Tongva (/ ˈ t ɒ ŋ v ə / TONG-və) are an Indigenous people of California from the Los Angeles Basin and the Southern Channel Islands, an area covering approximately 4,000 square miles (10,000 km 2). [1] [2] In the precolonial era, the people lived in as many as 100 villages and primarily identified by their village rather than by a pan ...
There are more than 150 documented Missing and Murdered Indigenous Person cases in California, according to the Sovereign Bodies Institute.
In reaction to Pope Francis's announcement that he would canonize Serra in January 2015 was, a statue of Christ in a cemetery at Mission San Gabriel in Los Angeles was toppled, and a MoveOn petition to "enlighten" the pope regarding “the deception, exploitation, oppression, enslavement, and genocide” of Native Americans received over 10,000 ...
That boosterish tale of California’s endless possibility turns out to have been built with sweat, oppression, coercion and genocide. It was precisely California’s openness, Pfaelzer posits ...