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An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873

by 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 resistance, who did the killing, and why the killings ended. This deeply

Publisher

Yale University Press

Publication date

2017

Format

Print edition

Pages

520

ISBN

9780300230697