About This Lesson
Essential Question: HOW WAS THE NATIVE AMERICAN GENOCIDE IN CALIFORNIA JUSTIFIED BY THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT?
Objective: To have students analyze and evaluate genocide of the Native Americans in California before, during and after the Civil War
Citations: CSPAN3 VIDEO – American History TV – (8/13/16) Lecture and Transcript of Benjamin Madley “An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873”
https://www.c-span.org/video/?414117-1/killing-native-americans-california
(25 mins)
Madley, Benjamin. An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873. Connecticut: Yale University Press.
