Miroku Nemeth’s Reviews > The Destruction of California Indians > Status Update

Documentation of white scalping of Indians here in California.

In a SF newspaper from 1857, they describe the feeling of Indians being put on California reservations, "The women in the wagons set up that peculiar plaintive cry used by them at their funerals, while the men walked behind the wagons in mournful silence."

Reading primary source documents on the treatment of the indigenous peoples here in California’s Central Valley, from Tulare, Fresno, Millerton, etc. in the mid-19th century—the abuse, exploitation, marginalization, corruption—the destruction of their way of life and the impoverishment of the concentration camps they were forced into—all of this is difficult reading but necessary history.

Original source documents on the treatment of California’s indigenous population, from north to south and even here in the Central Valley. Rape, enslavement, murder of man, women, children. Not easy reading, but necessary.