Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Several thousand [6] free and enslaved people of African ancestry were part of the California Gold Rush (1848–1855). Some were able to buy their freedom and freedom for their families, primarily in the South, with the gold they found. [7] [8] [9] This included enslaved African American Edmond Edward Wysinger (1816–1891).
The California genocide was a series of systematized killings of thousands of Indigenous people of California by United States government agents and private citizens in the 19th century. It began following the American Conquest of California from Mexico, and the influx of settlers due to the California Gold Rush, which accelerated the decline ...
The Bloody Island Massacre was a mass killing of indigenous Californians by the U.S. Military that occurred on what was then an island in Clear Lake, California, on May 15, 1850. It is part of the wider California genocide. A number of the Pomo, an indigenous people of California, had been enslaved by two settlers, Andrew Kelsey and Charles ...
Mutsun, Ramaytush, Rumsen, Tamien, and other Ohlonean-speaking peoples. The Awaswas, also known as the Santa Cruz people, were a group of the Indigenous peoples of California in North America, with subgroups historically numbering about 600 [ 1 ] to 1,400. [ 2 ] Academic research suggests that their ancestors had lived within the Santa Cruz ...
Dispossession of Indians from their land, pursuit of Indian bounties and indentured servants. The Round Valley Settler Massacres of 1856–1859 were a series of massacres committed by early White settlers of California with cooperation and funding from the government of California and the support of prominent Californians against the Yuki ...
The Graton Rancheria was a 15.45-acre (62,500 m 2) property in the coastal hills of northern California, about two miles (3 km) northwest of Sebastopol.The site is about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) southwest of the hamlet of Graton, population 1,815 in 2000. [1]
The Slaughter-House Cases, 83 U.S. (16 Wall.) 36 (1873), was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision which ruled that the Privileges or Immunities Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution only protects the legal rights that are associated with federal U.S. citizenship, not those that pertain to state citizenship.
End of the line for Farmer John, a smelly L.A. landmark of Dodger Dogs, tourists, protests. Thomas Curwen, Andrew J. Campa. June 11, 2022 at 8:00 AM. Smithfield Foods announced Friday that it will ...