Government propaganda spread lies about Native Americans, said Jayden Lim, a Trial youth ambassador. "The post-gold rush era was the most dangerous time in our history to be a California Indian.

and historian James Rawls tell us about what happened to Native Americans in the period of the Gold Rush. The native tribes of California lived by hunting and gathering the abundant resources of ...

A Rush of Gold Seekers By 1849, the non-native population of California had grown to almost 100,000 people. Nearly two-thirds were Americans. Upon arrival in California, immigrants learned mining ...

York and James Beckwourth charted the American frontier between the 16th and 19th centuries Amanda Bellows A new lesson plan centers Native American perspectives on the violence of Western ...