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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.
According to a survey conducted between 2016 and 2018, "36% of Americans almost certainly believe that the United States is guilty of committing genocide against Native Americans." [42] Indigenous author Michelle A. Stanley writes that "Indigenous genocide is largely denied, erased, relegated to the distant past, or presented as inevitable".
Native American peoples still face challenges stemming from colonialism, including settler occupation of their traditional homelands, police brutality, hate crimes, vulnerability to climate change, and mental health issues. Despite this, Native American resistance to colonialism and genocide has persisted both in the past and the present.
There are more than 150 documented Missing and Murdered Indigenous Person cases in California, according to the Sovereign Bodies Institute.
The genocide of indigenous peoples, colonial genocide, [1] or settler genocide [2] [3] [note 1] is the elimination of indigenous peoples as a part of the process of colonialism. [note 2] According to certain genocide experts, including Raphael Lemkin – the individual who coined the term genocide – colonization is intrinsically genocidal.
The geographic features and place names will be replaced in 15 counties by January 1, 2025, and the new names have been selected in consultation with California Native American tribes, the CNRA said.
Mariposa War 1850–1851, California State Militia against the Yosemites and Chowchillas. Commissioners McKee, Wozencraft, and Barbour negotiated eighteen treaties with California native peoples at various ranches and army posts, mainly in southern and central California. (March 1851 - January 1852)
Jean Pfaelzer discusses recasting history in 'California, a Slave State,' which tracks the record of racism and forced labor that drove the state's 'startup' culture.