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Book An American Genocide

    Book Details:
  • Author : Benjamin Madley
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2016-05-24
  • ISBN : 0300182171
  • Pages : 709 pages

Download or read book An American Genocide written by Benjamin Madley and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-24 with total page 709 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1846 and 1873, California’s Indian population plunged from perhaps 150,000 to 30,000. Benjamin Madley is the first historian to uncover the full extent of the slaughter, the involvement of state and federal officials, the taxpayer dollars that supported the violence, indigenous resistance, who did the killing, and why the killings ended. This deeply researched book is a comprehensive and chilling history of an American genocide. Madley describes pre-contact California and precursors to the genocide before explaining how the Gold Rush stirred vigilante violence against California Indians. He narrates the rise of a state-sanctioned killing machine and the broad societal, judicial, and political support for genocide. Many participated: vigilantes, volunteer state militiamen, U.S. Army soldiers, U.S. congressmen, California governors, and others. The state and federal governments spent at least $1,700,000 on campaigns against California Indians. Besides evaluating government officials’ culpability, Madley considers why the slaughter constituted genocide and how other possible genocides within and beyond the Americas might be investigated using the methods presented in this groundbreaking book.

Book The Indian Population of California

Download or read book The Indian Population of California written by Clinton Hart Merriam and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Population of the California Indians  1769 1970

Download or read book The Population of the California Indians 1769 1970 written by Sherburne Friend Cook and published by Berkeley : University of California Press. This book was released on 1976-01-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical information concerning California Indian tribes, notably the following: Tolowa, Yurok, Hupa, Chimariko, Shasta, Modoc, Okwanuchu, Achomawi, Astugewi, Athabacan, Yuki, Pomo, Wappo, Yana, Wintun, Patwin, Nisenan, Maidu.

Book Handbook of the Indians of California

Download or read book Handbook of the Indians of California written by Alfred Louis Kroeber and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1976-01-01 with total page 1124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major ethnographic work by a distinguished anthropologist contains detailed information on the social structures, homes, foods, crafts, religious beliefs, and folkways of California's diverse tribes

Book California and Her Indian Children

Download or read book California and Her Indian Children written by Cornelia Taber and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A survey of the present condition of Native Americans throughout California, noting lack of housing, evictions from land, racial prejudice that excludes Indian children from schools, denial of legal rights, sickness and poverty, and other deprevations. With a list of humane measures that can stop the attrition of the Indian population, also a survey of the work being done by "organizations for Indian betterment" and by the missions. The author was a Quaker activist based in San Jose.

Book The Destruction of California Indians

Download or read book The Destruction of California Indians written by Robert Fleming Heizer and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: California is a contentious arena for the study of the Native American past. Some critics say genocide characterized the early conduct of Indian affairs in the state; others say humanitarian concerns. Robert F. Heizer, in the former camp, has compiled a damning collection of contemporaneous accounts that will provoke students of California history to look deeply into the state's record of race relations and to question bland generalizations about the adventuresome days of the Gold Rush. Robert F. Heizer's many works include the classic The Other Californians: Prejudice and Discrimination under Spain, Mexico, and the United States to 1920 (1971), written with Alan Almquist. In his introduction, Albert L. Hurtado sets the documents in historical context and considers Heizer's influence on scholarship as well as the advances made since his death. A professor of history at Arizona State University, Hurtado is the author of Indian Survival on the California Frontier.

Book Early California Laws and Policies Related to California Indians

Download or read book Early California Laws and Policies Related to California Indians written by Kimberly Johnston-Dodds and published by California Research Bureau. This book was released on 2002 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Created by the California Research Bureau at the request of Senator John L. Burton, this Web-site is a PDF document on early California laws and policies related to the Indians of the state and focuses on the years 1850-1861. Visitors are invited to explore such topics as loss of lands and cultures, the governors and the militia, reports on the Mendocino War, absence of legal rights, and vagrancy and punishment.

Book We Are the Land

    Book Details:
  • Author : Damon B. Akins
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2021-04-20
  • ISBN : 0520976886
  • Pages : 377 pages

Download or read book We Are the Land written by Damon B. Akins and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A Native American rejoinder to Richard White and Jesse Amble White’s California Exposures.”—Kirkus Reviews Rewriting the history of California as Indigenous. Before there was such a thing as “California,” there were the People and the Land. Manifest Destiny, the Gold Rush, and settler colonial society drew maps, displaced Indigenous People, and reshaped the land, but they did not make California. Rather, the lives and legacies of the people native to the land shaped the creation of California. We Are the Land is the first and most comprehensive text of its kind, centering the long history of California around the lives and legacies of the Indigenous people who shaped it. Beginning with the ethnogenesis of California Indians, We Are the Land recounts the centrality of the Native presence from before European colonization through statehood—paying particularly close attention to the persistence and activism of California Indians in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The book deftly contextualizes the first encounters with Europeans, Spanish missions, Mexican secularization, the devastation of the Gold Rush and statehood, genocide, efforts to reclaim land, and the organization and activism for sovereignty that built today’s casino economy. A text designed to fill the glaring need for an accessible overview of California Indian history, We Are the Land will be a core resource in a variety of classroom settings, as well as for casual readers and policymakers interested in a history that centers the native experience.

Book Census of California Indian Tribes

Download or read book Census of California Indian Tribes written by C. E. Kelsey and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Indian Survival on the California Frontier

Download or read book Indian Survival on the California Frontier written by Albert L. Hurtado and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1990-09-10 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the Indians who survived the invasion of white settlers during the nineteenth century and integrated their lives into white society while managing to maintain their own culture

Book Native Americans of California and Nevada

Download or read book Native Americans of California and Nevada written by Jack D. Forbes and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was written as an introduction to the evoltuion of Natie American peoples in California and Nevada with emphasis on the historical and cultural experiences which have contributed to present day conditions of native communities. It also provides an introduction to the basic concept of Indian studies curricula.

Book The State of Native American Health Care in California

Download or read book The State of Native American Health Care in California written by California. Legislature. Senate. Subcommittee on Rural Health and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Immigrants in California

Download or read book Immigrants in California written by Hans P. Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The California Indians

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert Fleming Heizer
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 1971
  • ISBN : 9780520020313
  • Pages : 650 pages

Download or read book The California Indians written by Robert Fleming Heizer and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1971 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive survey of California Indian native cultures, discussing their origins, traditions, beliefs, daily life, struggles, and culture.

Book The Other One Percent

Download or read book The Other One Percent written by Sanjoy Chakravorty and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Other One Percent, Sanjoy Chakravorty, Devesh Kapur, and Nirvikar Singh provide the first authoritative and systematic overview of South Asians living in the United States.

Book Murder State

    Book Details:
  • Author : Brendan C. Lindsay
  • Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
  • Release : 2012-06-01
  • ISBN : 080324021X
  • Pages : 456 pages

Download or read book Murder State written by Brendan C. Lindsay and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the second half of the nineteenth century, the Euro-American citizenry of California carried out mass genocide against the Native population of their state, using the processes and mechanisms of democracy to secure land and resources for themselves and their private interests. The murder, rape, and enslavement of thousands of Native people were legitimized by notions of democracy—in this case mob rule—through a discreetly organized and brutally effective series of petitions, referenda, town hall meetings, and votes at every level of California government. Murder State is a comprehensive examination of these events and their early legacy. Preconceptions about Native Americans as shaped by the popular press and by immigrants’ experiences on the overland trail to California were used to further justify the elimination of Native people in the newcomers’ quest for land. The allegedly “violent nature” of Native people was often merely their reaction to the atrocities committed against them as they were driven from their ancestral lands and alienated from their traditional resources. In this narrative history employing numerous primary sources and the latest interdisciplinary scholarship on genocide, Brendan C. Lindsay examines the darker side of California history, one that is rarely studied in detail, and the motives of both Native Americans and Euro-Americans at the time. Murder State calls attention to the misuse of democracy to justify and commit genocide.

Book The Case of the California Indians

Download or read book The Case of the California Indians written by Oscar H. Lipps and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Appendices: "Linguistic Groups of California Indians," "Camp Fremont Treaty, March 19, 1851," "California Indian Population Federal Census, 1930," and "Lists of Authorities on California Indians."