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The destruction of California Indians : a collection of documents from the period 1847 to 1865 in which are described some of the things that happened to some of the Indians of California / edited by Robert F. Heizer ; introduction to the Bison book edition by Albert L. Hurtado.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indians, Treatment of--California.
- Indians, Treatment of.
- Indians of North America--California--History.
- Indians of North America.
- Indians of North America--Government relations--1789-1869.
- Indians, Treatment of--History--1789-1869--California.
- Indians of North America--Government relations--California.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxi, 321 p. ) ill. ;
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c1993.
- Language Note:
- English
- Contents:
- Some early records
- Conditions of Indians
- Regular and volunteer troop actions against Indians
- Reservation matters
- Proposals for Indian protection and welfare
- Indenture, kidnapping and sale of Indians
- Massacres
- Scalping of Indians
- Disease, liquor and sexual exploitation of Indian women
- Indian mistreatment of Chinese
- Indians and the white man's law
- Indians as the butt of jokes.
- Notes:
- "A Bison book."
- Originally published: Santa Barbara : Peregrine Smith, 1974.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0-585-33070-0
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