{"product_id":"american-genocide-the-united-states-the-california-indian-catastrophe","title":"AMERICAN GENOCIDE: THE UNITED STATES \u0026 THE CALIFORNIA INDIAN CATASTROPHE","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThe first full account of the government-sanctioned genocide of California Indians under United States rule.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e“Gruesomely thorough. . . . Others have described some of these campaigns, but never in such strong terms and with so much blame placed directly on the United States government.”—Alexander Nazaryan, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eBetween 1846 and 1873, California’s Indian population plunged from perhaps 150,000 to 30,000. Benjamin Madley is the first historian to uncover the full extent of the slaughter, the involvement of state and federal officials, the taxpayer dollars that supported the violence, Indigenous resistance, who did the killing, and why the killings ended.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eThis deeply researched book is a comprehensive and chilling history of an American genocide.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eMadley describes pre-contact California and precursors to the genocide before explaining how the Gold Rush stirred vigilante violence against California Indians.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eHe narrates the rise of a state-sanctioned killing machine and the broad societal, judicial, and political support for genocide.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eMany participated: vigilantes, volunteer state militiamen, U.S. Army soldiers, U.S. congressmen, California governors, and others. The state and federal governments spent at least $1.7 million on campaigns against California Indians.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eBesides evaluating government officials’ culpability, Madley considers why the slaughter constituted genocide and how other possible genocides within and beyond the Americas might be investigated using the methods presented in this groundbreaking book.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e520 pages\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSoftcover\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"YALE UNIVERSITY PRES","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50095207481581,"sku":"100241","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0654\/6017\/5085\/files\/ANAMERICANGENOCIDE1.jpg?v=1781112425","url":"https:\/\/thehuntingtonstore.org\/products\/american-genocide-the-united-states-the-california-indian-catastrophe","provider":"The Huntington Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}