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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.
The Wounded Knee Massacre, also known as the Battle of Wounded Knee, involved nearly three hundred Lakota people killed by soldiers of the United States Army.The massacre, part of what the U.S. military called the Pine Ridge Campaign, [5] occurred on December 29, 1890, [6] near Wounded Knee Creek (Lakota: Čhaŋkpé Ópi Wakpála) on the Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota ...
Upper Station Massacre: California: California settlers killed at least 20 Wailakis in Round Valley, California. 20 [246] 1862: Big Antelope Creek Massacre: California: California settlers led by notorious Indian hunter Hi Good launched a dawn attack on a Yana village, massacring about 25 Indians. 25 [247] 1862: August: Kowonk Massacre: California
Leonard Peltier (born September 12, 1944) is a Native American activist and member of the American Indian Movement (AIM) who was convicted of murdering two Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents in a June 26, 1975, shooting on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, which he denies.
Incident at Oglala is a 1992 American documentary film directed by Michael Apted and narrated by Robert Redford.The film documents the deaths of two Federal Bureau of Investigation agents, Jack R. Coler and Ronald A. Williams, on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation on June 26, 1975.
The town of Kelseyville bills itself as one of Northern California's best-kept secrets — an idyllic wine country community that overlooks the state's largest freshwater lake, as well as a 4,305 ...
Massacre site became a rallying point for Indigenous rights ... and Russell Means, center, attend a March 1973 meeting on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation where about 200 Native Americans ...
Also see California Indian Reservations and Cessions. Yontoket Massacre, 1853 massacre of Tolowa people at the village of Yontocket by company of citizens from Crescent City in Klamath County (now Del Norte County, California). Achulet Massacre, an 1854 massacre of more than 65 Tolowa people by settlers of Klamath County, California.