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Excerpt from History of Siskiyou County, California: Illustrated With Views of Residences, Business Buildings and Natural Scenery, and Containing Portraits and Biographies of Its Leading Citizens and Pioneers Shaw, David H _89, 177, 178, 192. 214 Shearer, Edwin _75, 76, 84, 204 214 36 Shooting of Indians 105 Simon, Sigmond -106, 'simonville 217 Siskiyou County, Description of Origin of Name 29 Skinner, James T - 190 Slade, William D 87, 98, 177, 201 Sleeper, M'enasseh 74 170 171 177 204, 206, 213, 215 Slicer. 'hugh 86, 107, 162, 175 Smith, Capt. A. J 135, 140 Capt. Joseph -171. Dr. A. M. C George. 166, 178, 211, 213 Smelling. R. B 72, 73, 90, 104, 200, 205, 217 Snow and rain _40 - 44' 41 Societies 172 oda Springs_ 47, 51, 208 ons of Temperance 180 outh Fork of Salmon -196 Scott River 195, 215 Township 70 Township 66 Squaw Valley Indians 133 Stage Lines and Robberies Starvation at Cottonwood 210 Salmon River Scott River Yreka Starveout Station Statistical Tables _43, 71 - 80, 192. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Follow the electrifying footprints of my family through 400 years of American history. The scope and vision of the Godfrey family, is one of maritime history, fortune seeking and western expansion. With an aura of mystique, they were visionaries and dreamers. From high seas adventure, to colonial settlement, slave trading, pioneer exploration, to Civil War heroics, mountain climbing, Forty-Niner's Gold Rush, famous Indian fighters to establishing educational and church policy, the Godfrey legacy is varied, robust and compelling. Their incredible story; unsanitized, tainted with blemishes, scars and harsh realities of life, is revealed for the first time. This book may appeal to family researchers, genealogists, historical societies and libraries.

Between 1846 and 1873, California’s Indian population plunged from perhaps 150,000 to 30,000. Benjamin Madley is the first historian to uncover the full extent of the slaughter, the involvement of state and federal officials, the taxpayer dollars that supported the violence, indigenous resistance, who did the killing, and why the killings ended. This deeply researched book is a comprehensive and chilling history of an American genocide. Madley describes pre-contact California and precursors to the genocide before explaining how the Gold Rush stirred vigilante violence against California Indians. He narrates the rise of a state-sanctioned killing machine and the broad societal, judicial, and political support for genocide. Many participated: vigilantes, volunteer state militiamen, U.S. Army soldiers, U.S. congressmen, California governors, and others. The state and federal governments spent at least $1,700,000 on campaigns against California Indians. Besides evaluating government officials’ culpability, Madley considers why the slaughter constituted genocide and how other possible genocides within and beyond the Americas might be investigated using the methods presented in this groundbreaking book.

This important collection of essays expands the geographic, demographic, and analytic scope of the term genocide to encompass the effects of colonialism and settler colonialism in North America. Colonists made multiple and interconnected attempts to destroy Indigenous peoples as groups. The contributors examine these efforts through the lens of genocide. Considering some of the most destructive aspects of the colonization and subsequent settlement of North America, several essays address Indigenous boarding school systems imposed by both the Canadian and U.S. governments in attempts to "civilize" or "assimilate" Indigenous children. Contributors examine some of the most egregious assaults on Indigenous peoples and the natural environment, including massacres, land appropriation, the spread of disease, the near-extinction of the buffalo, and forced political restructuring of Indigenous communities. Assessing the record of these appalling events, the contributors maintain that North Americans must reckon with colonial and settler colonial attempts to annihilate Indigenous peoples. Contributors. Jeff Benvenuto, Robbie Ethridge, Theodore Fontaine, Joseph P. Gone, Alexander Laban Hinton, Tasha Hubbard, Margaret D. Jabobs, Kiera L. Ladner, Tricia E. Logan, David B. MacDonald, Benjamin Madley, Jeremy Patzer, Julia Peristerakis, Christopher Powell, Colin Samson, Gray H. Whaley, Andrew Woolford