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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
Published Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [1993]
©1993

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 321 pages) : illustrations
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
Notes "A Bison book."
Originally published: Santa Barbara : Peregrine Smith, 1974
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-321)
Notes English
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 20, 2023)
Subject Indians, Treatment of -- California
Indians of North America -- California -- History
Indians of North America -- Government relations -- 1789-1869.
HISTORY -- State & Local -- General.
Indians of North America
Indians of North America -- Government relations
Indians, Treatment of
California
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Heizer, Robert F. (Robert Fleming), 1915-1979, editor.
Hurtado, Albert L., 1946- writer of introduction.
ISBN 0585330700
9780585330709