An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846–1873Benjamin Madley
Since the 1940s, scholars of California history have researched, documented, and exposed the widespread kidnapping, rape, enslavement, and murder of the state’s indigenous peoples. Benjamin Madley’s new book contributes to scholarship on the Gold Rush-era genocide perpetrated by settler militias, vi...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2018
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2018, Volume: 32, Issue: 2, Pages: 313-315 |
| Review of: | An American genocide (New Haven : Yale University Press, 2016) (Trafzer, Clifford E.)
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| Summary: | Since the 1940s, scholars of California history have researched, documented, and exposed the widespread kidnapping, rape, enslavement, and murder of the state’s indigenous peoples. Benjamin Madley’s new book contributes to scholarship on the Gold Rush-era genocide perpetrated by settler militias, vigilantes, and the United States Army. Madley’s volume documents a genocide long unacknowledged except by a few specialists in California history. Neither the general public nor the California Department of Education recognizes the killings as genocide., During the 1940s, physiology professor Sherburne F. Cook published on the population decline of California Indians during the Gold Rush era and made note of U.S. Army, local militia, and vigilante killings of Indian men, women, and children. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcy039 |