The Native American Slavery Behind the Gold Rush’s Success

Native Californians were treated abominably where gold was first discovered. James Marshall didn’t come to California to find gold. But in 1848, he noticed a glinting rock while building...

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The Massacre of Native Americans Justified by ‘Civilization’

By the end of the Indian Wars in the late 19th century, fewer than 238,000 Indigenous people remained of the estimated 5 million-plus living in North America before European...