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The first full account of the federal government-sanctioned genocide of California Indians under United States rule
Between 1846 and 1873, California’s Indian population plunged from in all probability 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 upward thrust of a state-sanctioned killing machine and the broad societal, judicial, and political beef up 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 no less than $1,700,000 on campaigns against California Indians. But even so evaluating government officials’ culpability, Madley considers why the slaughter constituted genocide and how other imaginable genocides within and beyond the Americas may well be investigated the use of the methods presented on this groundbreaking book.
Between 1846 and 1873, California’s Indian population plunged from in all probability 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 upward thrust of a state-sanctioned killing machine and the broad societal, judicial, and political beef up 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 no less than $1,700,000 on campaigns against California Indians. But even so evaluating government officials’ culpability, Madley considers why the slaughter constituted genocide and how other imaginable genocides within and beyond the Americas may well be investigated the use of the methods presented on this groundbreaking book.
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