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A Citations Needed News Brief is a spiritual follow-up to the previous episode. This week, we talk about Hollywood's treatment of indigenous people in North America. We also discuss how notions of blight and barrenness were created to erase indigenous peoples. The author of an award winning book on U.S. genocide will be interviewed by Adam Johnson.

In this extended interview, we speak with UCLA Associate Professor Benjamin Madley about his book, "An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe," and discuss how newspapers, tracts, and paperbacks were an essential element in assisting and priming the public for the genocide of California's native population.

Prof. Madley's work was instrumental in our research for previous Citations Needed episodes - namely, "Episode 158: How Notions of 'Blight' and 'Barrenness' Were Created to Erase Indigenous Peoples" and "Episode 172: The Foundational Myth Machine - Indigenous Peoples of North America and Hollywood" - so we were thrilled to dig even deeper into his work on this special News Brief.