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An American genocide : the United States and the California Indian catastrophe, 1846-1873 / Benjamin Madley.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: New Haven : Yale University Press, (c)2016.Description: 1 online resource (xv, 692 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780300182170
  • 9780300181364
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • E78 .A447 2016
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
Prelude to Genocide: March 1846-March 1848 -- Gold, Immigrants, and Killers from Oregon: March 1848-May 1850 -- Turning Point: The Killing Campaigns of December 1849-May 1850 -- Legislating Exclusion and Vulnerability: 1846-1853 -- Rise of the Killing Machine: Militias and Vigilantes, April 1850-December 1854 -- Perfecting the Killing Machine: December 1854-March 1861 -- The Civil War in California and Its Aftermath: March 1861-1871 -- Conclusion.
Summary: 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.0Besides 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.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

California Indians before 1846 -- Prelude to Genocide: March 1846-March 1848 -- Gold, Immigrants, and Killers from Oregon: March 1848-May 1850 -- Turning Point: The Killing Campaigns of December 1849-May 1850 -- Legislating Exclusion and Vulnerability: 1846-1853 -- Rise of the Killing Machine: Militias and Vigilantes, April 1850-December 1854 -- Perfecting the Killing Machine: December 1854-March 1861 -- The Civil War in California and Its Aftermath: March 1861-1871 -- Conclusion.

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.0Besides 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.

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