An American genocide: the United States and the California Indian catastrophe, 1846-1873

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 resistan...

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Main Author: Madley, Benjamin (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: New Haven London Yale University Press [2016]
In:Year: 2016
Reviews:An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846–1873Benjamin Madley (2018) (Trafzer, Clifford E.)
Series/Journal:The Lamar series in western history
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B USA / California / Indians / Genocide / History 1846-1873
Further subjects:B Indians of North America Crimes against (California) History 19th century
B Race Relations history
B California History 19th century
B Genocide (California) History 19th century
B Indians of North America (California) History 19th century
B Indians, North American history
B Genocide history
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