The gold rush of 1848 brought still more devastation. Violence, disease and loss overwhelmed the tribes. By 1870, an estimated 30,000 native people remained in the state of California, most on ...

They perpetrated government-supported violence, denied Natives equal ... That is the story of the California Gold Rush. But ...

But that's only one part of the sta gold rush story ... heavily-armed settlers descended to California to hunt for gold. This set the stage for the "violence of genocide," said Benjamin Madley ...

Rosie Clayburn is a descendant of the Yurok Tribe, which had its territory — called 'O Rew in the Yurok language — ripped from them nearly two centuries ago. "As the natural world became completely ...

The largest wildfire currently burning in California, known as the Dixie Fire, has destroyed nearly all of the historic Gold Rush town of Greenville. The estimated 800 residents of the northern ...

Ah, but — and you should remember this for “Jeopardy!” — the Golden State’s first documented gold strike happened here, in ...

In August 1852, the Alta California exposed a brewing court ... sailed to San Francisco on a Chinese junk just before the gold rush, when he was approximately 20 years old.

California enacted Assembly Bill 1821 (AB 1821) last week, mandating the inclusion of Native American history and ...

Coloma, California Begin at the epicenter of the California Gold Rush, where James Marshall first glimpsed gold in the South Fork of the American River, starting the California Gold Rush of 1849.