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Title 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.

Publication Info. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [1993]
©1993

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  979.4 D477D c.2  Check Shelf
Description xxi, 321 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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 -- Document sources.
Note "A Bison book."
Originally published: Santa Barbara : Peregrine Smith, 1974.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-321).
Subject Indians of North America -- Government relations -- 1789-1869.
Indians of North America -- California -- History.
Local Subject Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Government relations -- 1789-1869.
Subject Indians, Treatment of -- California.
Local Subject Indigenous peoples -- California -- History.
Indigenous peoples, Treatment of -- California.
Added Author Heizer, Robert F. (Robert Fleming), 1915-1979.
ISBN 0803272626 pa $12.95
Sudoc No. U5001 T309 -1993 nbdocs
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