Benjamin Madley: 1 book
An American Genocide
The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
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,...
