American History Tellers

California Gold Rush | Battlelines | 3

Jan 25, 2023

40:16

Highlights

AI Chapters

Episode notes

Wozencraft's Treaty With the Yokouts

03:31

Native Americans and the Gold Rush in California

04:04

Indian Voting Rights - The California Constitutional Convention

04:12

Introduction

2min

American History Tellers Is Sponsored by Audible

3min

Battle Lines - The Story of the California Gold Rush

2min

Native Americans and the Gold Rush in California

4min

The Treaty of Indians

2min

Indian Voting Rights - The California Constitutional Convention

4min

True Crime Podcast - Don't Quit Me!

3min

A Brief History of the California Gold Rush

3min

Andrew Kelsey's Mercy

5min

10.

The Bloody Island Massacre of 1850

2min

11.

California's History of Slavery

5min

12.

Native Peoples' Misgivings About Treaty Negotiations

1min

13.

Wozencraft's Treaty With the Yokouts

4min

14.

California's Gold Rush

4min

For white settlers, the Gold Rush offered a chance for fortune, but for California’s Native inhabitants, the sudden hunger for gold spelled disaster. As the numbers of miners grew, they forced Native people off their ancestral lands, often starving or slaughtering them in the process. As California became a state, informal policies that discriminated against indigenous Californians became law. Soon, the state would deploy militias to violently put down Indian resistance.

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