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An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846–1873

Benjamin Madley's 2016 book on California.

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California's militia campaigns against Native peoples, 1850s Scholarship & press 1
A USC staff summary of Madley's 2016 lecture, with no words of his own. Ostler writes that more Californians died of disease and malnutrition than of direct killing, though killing may explain most deaths for some nations.

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2016 An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846–1873

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Benjamin Madley presents on the genocide of California Indians from 1846 to 1873, USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research, 31 Oct 2016. Scholarship & press
State and federal officials supported these efforts, providing legal protection, financial support, material incentives, weapons and ammunition, and manpower to the killing campaigns.
The result of that research is his book An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873

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