California Genocide 1846 to 1873 - 70+ Tribes, Massacre. Peoples & Branches Etc.

The California Genocide ", a brutal and "savage" massacre list of over 70 plus Indigenous Tribes , Peoples & Branches.. which took place from Between 1846 and 1873, it is estimated that non-Natives killed between 9,492 and 16,094 California Natives. Hundreds to thousands were additionally starved or worked to death. Acts of enslavement, kidnapping, rape, child separation and displacement were widespread. American Indian boarding schools, also known more recently as American Indian residential schools, were established in the United States from the mid-17th to the early 20th centuries with a primary objective of "civilizing" or assimilating Native American children and youth into European American culture. In the process, these schools denigrated Native American culture and made children give up their languages and religion.Show more

The California Genocide" refers to actions in the mid to late 19th century by the United States federal, state and local governments that resulted in the decimation of the Indigenous population of California, following the U.S. occupation of California, in 1846. Actions included encouragement of volunteers and militias to kill "unarmed" men, women and children. Between 1846 and 1873, European Americans are estimated to have killed outright some 9,492 to 16,094 California Indigenous Americans, particularly, during the "California Gold Rush". 24,000 to 27,000 Indigenous Americans were also taken as forced labor, in which most of them would die of disease, starvation and abuse. The state of California used its institutions to favor settlers' rights over Indigenous rights and was responsible for dispossession of the Indigenous Peoples.