California Gold Rush Triggers Genocide, Lawlessness, and Massive Land Fraud
Gold is discovered at Sutter’s Mill in Coloma, California on January 24, 1848, triggering a massive influx of settlers and creating conditions for genocide against Indigenous Californians, systematic land fraud against Mexican land grant holders, and a lawless environment exhibiting all …
California settlers
Mexican land grant holders
Indigenous Californians
U.S. military government
Gold prospectors
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