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Access Genealogy: Indian Tribal records, Miwok Indian Tribe. Retrieved on 2006-08-01. Main source of "authenticated village" names and locations. Barrett, S.A. and Gifford, E.W. Miwok Material Culture: Indian Life of the Yosemite Region. Yosemite Association, Yosemite National Park, California, 1933. ISBN 0-939666-12-X; Cook, Sherburne.
The California genocide was a series of genocidal massacres of the indigenous peoples of California by United States soldiers and settlers during the 19th century. It began following the American conquest of California in the Mexican–American War and the subsequent influx of American settlers to the region as a result of the California gold rush.
As the Gold Rush continued to drive up the price of land, U.S. senators met in 1852 to consider the treaties. They rejected the agreements — and placed them under an injunction of secrecy .
Before the Spanish first landed on California soil, there were about 22,000 Miwoks within the region; today there are about 750. [6] John Sutter built his fort in 1839 and continued enslaving Indians. He raided around Ione. The 1848–50 California Gold Rush brought an onslaught of non-Native people into the region. [1]
Long before California got its name, the Miwok Indians hunted and fished along the banks of what would become known as the Sacramento River — including a spot where the state Capitol now stands ...
The Conflict Between the California Indian and White Civilization. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 1976. ISBN 0-520-03143-1. Kroeber, Alfred L. 1907. The Religion of the Indians of California, University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 4:#6.
The original 1990 general plan made little mention of the Indigenous communities — Miwok and Nisenan communities, among other tribes — that called the land home prior to John Sutter’s ...
Forced labor of native people in California was common during the gold rush, permitted by the 1850 Act for the Government and Protection of Indians. [ 45 ] [ 46 ] Most of inland California including California deserts and the Central Valley was in possession of native people until the acquisition of Alta California by the United States.