An American genocide : the United States and the California Indian catastrophe, 1846-1873 / Benjamin Madley.
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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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- 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
- Appendixes. 1: Reports of nonspecific numbers of California Indians killed, 1846-1873 ; 2: Reports of fewer than five California Indians killed, 1846-1873 ; 3: Reports of five or more California Indians killed, 1846-1873 ; 4: Reports of non-Indians killed by California Indians, 1846-1873 ; 5: Selected massacres with contested death tolls, 1846-1866 ; 6: Major volunteer California state militia expeditions, 1850-1861 ; 7: Reports of California Indians killed by US army soldiers and their auxiliaries, 1846-1873 ; 8: The United Nations Genocide Convention.