Last week i saw the last episode of The California Goldrush on tv and not one single word was mention about which effect it had on the Native american Indian who lived in the area. below you can read whats really happend to them. The California Gold Rush (1848–1855) began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutters Mill in Coloma, California.The first to hear confirmed information of the Gold Rush were the people in Oregon, the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii), and Latin America, who were the first to start flocking to the state in late 1848. All told, the news of gold brought some 300,000 people to California from the rest of the United States and abroad.Of the 300,000, approximately half arrived by sea and half came from the east overland on the California Trail and the Gila River trail. The goldrush effect on the Native American Many miners and ranchers came together for the cause and purpose of killing off the Indians. The Native Americans were deeply scarred from the California Gold rush more than anyone could imagine other than the people who lived the nightmare. The population of Indians was an estimated 150,000 in 1845; 25 years later and 22 years after the beginning of the Goldrush an estimated number of only 30,000 Indians were living. The estimated number of Indians killed by new diseases passed on by settlers is around 60% of all the Natives living combined. The white settlers killed and sold the scalps and severed heads of Native Americans, at 25 cents for the scalps, and at more than $5 for the severed heads. $1,000,000 were recovered to the government for the selling of these items. An estimated 4,000 Native children were sold as slaves to settlers. The prices the enslaved children were up to $60 for the young boys and up to $200 for young girls. By 1900, 16,000 Native Californians were all that survived. The treaty of Guadalupe surprisingly had a huge effect on the Indians, as this sent Mexican ranchos with new property rights pouring into California, covering some thirteen-million acres of the Natives land. They later would play a huge role in the California Gold rush. Before 1769, the year the Spanish began to colonizing there was more than 300,000 Natives living in California. The 300,000 represented more than 100 tribes, all with there own diverse and distinctive traditions and cultures, which many were completely lost by the arrival of settlers. When other people came to the land, most didnt refer to the natural beauty, but the wealth it held within. Bha
Posted on: Tue, 04 Feb 2014 22:25:16 +0000
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