California-Genocide

California Legislature Begins Funding State Militia Expeditions for Indigenous Genocide

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California achieves statehood on September 9, 1850, and the newly formed state legislature immediately begins authorizing and funding militia expeditions explicitly designed to kill Indigenous Californians and drive them from their ancestral lands. Between 1850 and 1861, California governors call …

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