California genocide

The California genocide consisted of actions taken by the United States in the 19th century, following the American Conquest of California from Mexico, that resulted in the dramatic decrease of the indigenous population of California. Between 1849 and 1870 it is conservatively estimated that American colonists murdered some 9,500 California Natives,[1] and acts of enslavement, kidnapping, rape, child separation and displacement were widespread, encouraged, carried out by and tolerated by state authorities and militias.

California genocide
Part of the Conquest of California and California Gold Rush
"Protecting The Settlers", illustration by J. R. Browne for his work The Indians Of California, 1864
Location	California
Date	1846–1871
Target	Indigenous Californians
Attack type	Genocide, ethnic cleansing, human hunting, slavery, rape, Indian removal
Deaths	9,492 to 16,094 (Madley)[1] (other estimates: 4,500[2]–100,000[3]) indigenous Californians outright killed, thousands more died due to disease and other causes
Injured	24,000[4] to 27,000[4] Native Americans were taken as forced laborers by white settlers; 4,000[4] to 7,000[4] of them children
Perpetrators	United States Army, California State Militia, settlers of Mexican, Spanish and other European descent

The 1925 book Handbook of the Indians of California estimated that the indigenous population of California decreased from perhaps as many as 150,000 in 1848 to 30,000 in 1870 and fell further to 16,000 in 1900. The decline was caused by disease, starvation and massacres. California Native Americans, particularly during the Gold Rush, were targeted in killings.[5][6] 24,000[4] to 27,000[4] Native Americans were also taken as forced labor by settlers. The state of California used its institutions to favor white settlers' rights over indigenous rights and was responsible for dispossession of the natives.[7]

Since the 2000s several American academics and activist organizations, both Native American and European American, have characterized the period immediately following the U.S. Conquest of California as one in which the state and federal governments waged genocide against the Native Americans in the territory. In 2019 California's governor Gavin Newsom apologized for the genocide and called for a research group to be formed to better understand the topic and inform future generations.

Background

Indigenous peoples

Indigenous ethnic and (inset) linguistic groups of California prior to European arrival.

Prior to Spanish arrival, California was home to an indigenous population thought to have been as high as 300,000. The largest group were the Chumash people, with a population around 10,000.[8] The region was highly diverse, with numerous distinct languages spoken. While there was great diversity in the area, archeological findings show little evidence of intertribal conflicts.[6]

The various groups appear to have adapted to particular areas and territories. California habitats and climate supported an abundance of wildlife, including rabbits, deer, varieties of fish, fruit, roots, and acorns. The natives largely followed a hunter-gatherer lifestyle, moving around their area through the seasons as different types of food were available.[9]

Contact

California was one of the last regions in the Americas to be colonized. Spanish missionaries, led by Franciscan administrator Junípero Serra and military forces under the command of Gaspar de Portolá, did not reach this area until 1769. The mission was intended to spread the Christian faith among the region's indigenous peoples and establish places to develop area resources and products for the empire. The Spanish built San Diego de Alcalá, the first of 21 missions, at what developed as present-day San Diego in the southern part of the state along the Pacific. Military outposts were constructed alongside the missions to house the soldiers sent to protect the missionaries.

Spanish and Mexican rule were devastating for native populations. “As the missions grew, California’s native population of Indians began a catastrophic decline.”[10] Gregory Orfalea estimates that pre-contact population was reduced by 33% during the Spanish and Mexican regimes. Most of the deaths stemmed from imported diseases and the disruption of traditional ways of life, but violence was common, and some historians have charged that life in the missions was close to slavery.[11]

California statehood and genocide

In the latter half of the 19th century California state and federal authorities incited,[12][13] aided, and financed miners, settlers, ranchers, and people's militias to enslave, kidnap, murder, and exterminate a major proportion of displaced Native American Indians. The latter were sometimes contemptuously referred to as "Diggers", for their practice of digging up roots to eat. Many of the same policies of violence were used here against the indigenous population as the United States had done throughout its territory.[14][15][16][17][18][19][20]

Simultaneous to the ongoing extermination, reports of the decimation of Native Americans were made to the rest of the United States and internationally.[note 1]

The California Act for the Government and Protection of Indians was enacted in 1850 (amended 1860, repealed 1863). This law provided for "apprenticing" or indenturing Indian children to Whites, and also punished "vagrant" Indians by "hiring" them out to the highest bidder at a public auction if the Indian could not provide sufficient bond or bail. This legalized a form of slavery in California.[21] White settlers took 24,000 to 27,000 California Native Americans as forced laborers, including 4,000 to 7,000 children.[4]

A notable early eyewitness testimony and account: "The Indians of California" 1864, is from John Ross Browne, Customs official and Inspector of Indian Affairs on the Pacific Coast. He systematically described the fraud, corruption, land theft, slavery, rape, and massacre perpetrated on a substantial portion of the aboriginal population.[22] [23] This was confirmed by a contemporary, Superintendent Dorcas J. Spencer.[24]

By one estimate, at least 4,500 Californian Indians were killed between 1849 and 1870.[2] Contemporary historian Benjamin Madley has documented the numbers of Californian Indians killed between 1846 and 1873; he estimates that during this period at least 9,492 to 16,092 Californian Indians were killed by non-Indians. Most of the deaths took place in what he defined as more than 370 massacres (defined as the "intentional killing of five or more disarmed combatants or largely unarmed noncombatants, including women, children, and prisoners, whether in the context of a battle or otherwise").[1]

The Native American activist and former Sonoma State University Professor Ed Castillo claimed that "well armed death squads combined with the widespread random killing of Indians by individual miners resulted in the death of 100,000 Indians in the first two years of the gold rush".[3]

List of recorded massacres

Year	Date	Name	Current location	Description	Reported casualties	Claimants
1846	April 6	Sacramento River massacre	California	Captain John C. Frémont's men attacked a band of Indians (probably Wintun) on the Sacramento River in California, killing between 120 and 200 Indians.	120–200	[25]
1846	May 12	Klamath Lake massacre	California	Captain John C. Frémont's men, led by Kit Carson, attacked a village of Klamath Indians on the banks of Klamath Lake, killing at least 14 Klamath people.	14+	[26]
1846	June	Sutter Buttes massacre	California	Captain John C. Frémont's men attacked a rancheria on the banks of the Sacramento River near Sutter Buttes, killing several Patwin people.	14+	[26]
1846	December	Pauma massacre	California	11 Californios captured at Rancho Pauma were killed as horse thieves by Indians at Warner Springs, California, leading to the Temecula massacre.	11 (settlers)	[27]
1846	December	Temecula massacre	California	33 to 40 Luiseño Indians killed in an ambush in revenge for the Pauma Massacre east of Temecula, California.	33–40	[27]
1847	March	Rancheria Tulea massacre	California	White slavers retaliate to a slave escape by massacring five Indians in Rancheria Tulea.	5	[26]
1847	March 29	Kern and Sutter massacres	California	In response to a plea from White settlers to put an end to raids, U.S. Army Captain Edward Kern and rancher John Sutter led 50 men in attacks on three Indian villages.	20	[26]
1847	late June/early July	Konkow Maidu slaver massacre	California	Slavers kill 12–20 Konkow Maidu Indians in the process of capturing 30 members of the tribe for the purpose of forced slavery.	12–20	[26]
1850	May 15	Bloody Island massacre	California	Nathaniel Lyon and his U.S. Army detachment of cavalry killed 60–100 Pomo people on Bo-no-po-ti island near Clear Lake, (Lake Co., California); they believed the Pomo had killed two Clear Lake settlers who had been abusing and murdering Pomo people. (The Island Pomo had no connections to the enslaved Pomo.) This incident led to a general outbreak of settler attacks against and mass killing of native people all over Northern California. The site is now California Registered Historical Landmark #427.	60–100	[28][29][30]
1851	January 11	Mariposa War	California	The gold rush increased pressure on the Native Americans of California, because miners forced Native Americans off their gold-rich lands. Many were pressed into service in the mines; others had their villages raided by the army and volunteer militia. Some Native American tribes fought back, beginning with the Ahwahnechees and the Chowchilla in the Sierra Nevada and San Joaquin Valley leading a raid on the Fresno River post of James D. Savage, in December 1850. In retaliation Mariposa County Sheriff James Burney led local militia in an indecisive clash with the natives on January 11, 1851 on a mountainside near present-day Oakhurst, California.	40+
1851		Old Shasta Town	California	Miners killed 300 Wintu Indians near Old Shasta, California and burned down their tribal council meeting house.	300	[31]
1852	April 23	Bridge Gulch massacre	California	70 American men led by Trinity County sheriff William H. Dixon killed more than 150 Wintu people in the Hayfork Valley of California, in retaliation for the killing of Col. John Anderson.	150	[32]
1852	November	Wright massacre	California	White settlers led by a notorious Indian hunter named Ben Wright massacred 41 Modocs during a "peace parley".	41	[33]
1853		Howonquet massacre	California	Californian settlers attacked and burned the Tolowa village of Howonquet, massacring 70 people.	70	[34]
1853		Yontoket Massacre	California	A posse of settlers attacked and burned a Tolowa rancheria at Yontocket, California, killing 450 Tolowa during a prayer ceremony.	450	[35][36]
1853		Achulet Massacre	California	White settlers launched an attack on a Tolowa village near Lake Earl in California, killing between 65 and 150 Indians at dawn.	65–150	[37]
1853	Before December 31	"Ox" incident	California	U.S. forces attacked and killed an unreported number of Indians in the Four Creeks area (Tulare County, California) in what was referred to by officers as "our little difficulty" and "the chastisement they have received".		[38]
1855	January 22	Klamath River massacres	California	In retaliation for the murder of six settlers and the theft of some cattle, whites commenced a "war of extermination against the Indians" in Humboldt County, California.		[39]
1856	March	Shingletown	California	In reprisal for Indian stock theft, white settlers massacred at least 20 Yana men, women, and children near Shingletown, California.	20	[40]
1856–1859		Round Valley Settler Massacres	California	White settlers killed over a thousand Yuki Indians in Round Valley over the course of three years in an uncountable number of separate massacres.	1,000+	[41][42]
1859–1860		Jarboe's War	California	White settlers calling themselves the "Eel River Rangers", led by Walter Jarboe, killed at least 283 Indian men and countless women and children in 23 engagements over the course of six months. They were reimbursed by the U.S. government for their campaign.	283+	[41]
1859	September	Pit River	California	White settlers massacred 70 Achomawi Indians (10 men and 60 women and children) in their village on the Pit River in California.	70	[43]
1859		Chico Creek	California	White settlers attacked a Maidu camp near Chico Creek in California, killing indiscriminately 40 Indians.	40	[44]
1860	Exact date unknown	Massacre at Bloody Rock	California	A group of 65 Yuki Indians were surrounded and massacred by white settlers at Bloody Rock, in Mendocino County, California.	65	[45]
1860	February 26	Indian Island massacre	California	In three nearly simultaneous assaults on the Wiyot, at Indian Island, Eureka, Rio Dell, and near Hydesville, California, white settlers killed between 80 and 250 Wiyot in Humboldt County, California. Victims were mostly women, children, and elders, as reported by Bret Harte at Arcata newspaper. Other villages were massacred within two days. The main site is National Register of Historic Places in the United States #66000208.	80–250	[46][47][48][49]
1863	April 19	Keyesville massacre	California	American militia and members of the California Volunteers cavalry killed 35 Tübatulabal men in Kern County, California.	35	[50]
1863	August 28	Konkow Trail of Tears	California	On August 1863 all Konkow Maidu were to be sent to the Bidwell Ranch in Chico and then be taken to the Round Valley Reservation at Covelo in Mendocino County. Any Indians remaining in the area were to be shot. Maidu were rounded up and marched under guard west out of the Sacramento Valley and through to the Coastal Range. 461 Native Americans started the trek, 277 finished.[51] They reached the Round Valley on 18 September 1863.	184	[51]
1864		Oak Run massacre	California	California settlers massacred 300 Yana Indians who had gathered near the head of Oak Run, California for a spiritual ceremony.	300	[52]
1865		Owens Lake massacre	California	To avenge the killing of a woman and child at Haiwai Meadows, White vigilantes attacked a Paiute camp on Owens Lake in California, killing about 40 men, women, and children.	40	[53]
1865		Three Knolls massacre	California	White settlers massacred a Yana community at Three Knolls on the Mill Creek, California.		[54][55]
1868		Campo Seco	California	A posse of white settlers massacred 33 Yahis in a cave north of Mill Creek, California.	33	[56][57]
1871		Kingsley Cave massacre	California	4 settlers killed 30 Yahi Indians in Tehama County, California about two miles from Wild Horse Corral in the Ishi Wilderness. It is estimated that this massacre left only 15 members of the Yahi tribe alive.	30	[58]

Population decline

Estimated native California population based on Handbook of the Indians of California (1925) (Cook 1978)

Groups	Population by year All minimum sources below cite:[8]
	1770	1910
Yurok	2,500 (up to 3,100[59])	700
Karok	1,500 (up to[60][61] 2,000 to 2,700)	800
Wiyot	1,000	100
Tolowa	1,000	150
Hupa	1,000	500
Chilula, Whilkut	1,000	(*)
Mattole	500 (up to 2,476[62])	(*)
Nongatl, Sinkyone, Lassik	2,000 (up to 7,957[62])	100
Wailaki	1,000 (up to 2,760[62])	200
kato	500 (up to 1,100[59]	(*)
Yuki	2,000 (up to 6,000 to 20,000)[63][64]	100
Huchnom	500	(*)
Coast Yuki	500	(*)
Wappo	1,000 (up to 1,650[65]	(*)
Pomo	8,000 (up to 10,000[66] to 18,000[66])	1,200
Lake Miwok	500	(*)
Coast Miwok	1,500	(*)
Shasta	2,000 (up to 5,600[67] to 10,000[68]	100
Chimariko, New River, Konomihu, Oakwanuchu	1,000	(*)
Achomawi, Atsugawi	3,000	1,100
Modoc in California	500	(*)
Yana/Yahi	1,500	(*)
Wintun	12,000	1,000
Maidu	9,000 (up to 9,500[69])	1,100
Miwok (Plains and Sierra)	9,000	700
Yokuts	18,000 (up to 70,000[70])	600
Costanoan	7,000 (up 10,000[71] to 26,000 combined with Salinan)[72])	(*)
Esselen	500	(*)
Salinan	3,000	(*)
Chumash	10,000 (up to 13,650[73] to 20,400[73][74]	(*)
Washo in California	500	300
Northern Paiute in California	500	300
Eastern and Western Mono	4,000	1,500
Tübatulabal	1,000	150
Koso, Chemehuevi, Kawaiisu	1,500	500
Serrano, Vanyume, Kitanemuk, Alliklik	3,500	150
Gabrielino, Fernandeño, San Nicoleño	5,000	(*)
Luiseño	4,000 (up to 10,000[75]	500
Juaneño	1,000 (up 3,340)[76]	(*)
Cupeño	500 (up to 750[77])	150
Cahuilla	2,500 (up to 6,000[78] to 15,000[78])	800
Diegueño, Kamia	3,000 (up to 6,000[79] to 19,000[80])	800
Mohave (total)	3,000	1,050
Halchidhoma (emigrated since 1800)	1,000 (up to 2,500[81])	........
Yuma (Total)	2,500	750
Total of groups marked (*)	..........	450
		15,850
Less river Yumans in Arizona	3,000 (up to 4,000[82])	850
Non-Californian Indians now in California	..........	350
Affiliation doubtful or not reported	..........	1,000
Total	133,000 (up to 230,407 to 301,233)	16,350

Legacy

Call for tribunals

Native American scholar Gerald Vizenor has argued in the early 21st century for universities to be authorized to assemble tribunals to investigate these events. He notes that United States federal law contains no statute of limitations on war crimes and crimes against humanity, including genocide. He says:

Genocide tribunals would provide venues of judicial reason and equity that reveal continental ethnic cleansing, mass murder, torture, and religious persecution, past and present, and would justly expose, in the context of legal competition for evidence, the inciters, falsifiers, and deniers of genocide and state crimes against Native American Indians. Genocide tribunals would surely enhance the moot court programs in law schools and provide more serious consideration of human rights and international criminal cases by substantive testimony, motivated historical depositions, documentary evidence, contentious narratives, and ethical accountability.[83]

Vizenor believes that, in accordance with international law, the universities of South Dakota, Minnesota, and California Berkeley ought to establish tribunals to hear evidence and adjudicate crimes against humanity alleged to have taken place in their individual states.[84] Attorney Lindsay Glauner has also argued for such tribunals.[85]

Apology by California's governor

In a speech before representatives of Native American peoples in June, 2019, California governor Gavin Newsom apologized for the genocide. Newsom said, "That’s what it was, a genocide. No other way to describe it. And that’s the way it needs to be described in the history books."[86] After hearing testimony, a Truth and Healing Council will clarify the historical record on the relationship between the state and California Native Americans.[87]

See also

• California Indian Wars
• California mission clash of cultures
• Genocide of indigenous peoples
• List of Indian massacres
• Trail of Tears
• Long Walk of the Navajo
• 1837 Great Plains smallpox epidemic
• Comanche campaign
• Yavapai Wars
• Northern Cheyenne Exodus

Notes

1. Aboriginal Americans. Quote: "Dr. MacGowan, in a lecture delivered at New York, estimated the present number of Indians in the United States to be about 250,000, and said that unless something prevented the oppression and cruelty of the white man, these people would gradually become reduced, and finally extinct. He predicted the total extermination of the Digger Indians of California and the tribes of other states within ten years, if something were not done for their relief. The lecturer concluded by strongly urging the establishment of a Protective Aborigines Society, something similar to the society in England to prevent cruelty to animals. By this means he thought the condition of the Indian might be improved and the race longer perpetuated." The British Medical Journal, Vol. 1, No. 274 (March 31, 1866), p. 350

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