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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.
During the Mexican–American War, he was a major in the U.S. Army and took control of a portion of California north of San Francisco from the short-lived California Republic in 1846. During this time, he led several massacres against indigenous peoples in California as part of the California genocide .
Pages in category "Perpetrators of the California genocide" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
It includes both massacres of native Indian populations, as well as other aspects of cultural genocide as defined by the United Nations. [2] [3] [4] Long Walk of the Navajo: the 1864 deportation and ethnic cleansing of the Navajo people by the United States federal government. Native American genocide in the United States. California genocide
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 ...
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 ...
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The Indian Island Massacre: Place, Labor, and Environmental Change on California's Northwest (MA thesis). St. Louis University. Madley, Benjamin (2016). An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846–1873. Lamar Series in Western History. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press. pp. 282– 84.