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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.
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
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.
Klamath and Salmon River War, or Klamath War, [1] or Red Cap War, or Klamath River Massacres, was an American Indian War which occurred in Klamath County California from January to March 1855. The war began from incidents between local settlers and local Indians and a rumor of an Indian uprising against the miners along the Klamath River by the ...
The Round Valley Indian Reservation is a federally recognized Indian reservation lying primarily in northern Mendocino County, California, United States. A small part of it extends northward into southern Trinity County. The total land area, including off-reservation trust land, is 93.939 km 2 (36.270 sq mi).
The California Gold Rush of 1849 led to an influx of miners and ranchers who settled in the Sierra Nevada and Northern California goldfield regions. The mining of gold disrupted indigenous California communities through the degradation of the environment on which they depended, violent attacks on Native California villages by white settlers, and the implementation of a state-sanctioned system ...
California was pliable, not another American place that bent you, but a place you could bend to fit your own idea of a created, intentional life. In the hands of the powerful, that pliability has ...
White immigrants flooded into northern California in 1848 due to the California Gold Rush, increasing the non-Indian population of California from 13,000 to well over 300,000 in little more than a decade. [1] [2] The sudden influx of miners and settlers on top of the nearly 300,000 Native Americans living in the area strained space and resources.