Overview
Follow up question: Once the 49ers arrived in California things would never be the same for Indian tribes of the region. Conditions worsened for the Indigenous peoples when most of the gold seekers did not strike it rich. Needing a way to make a living they turned to farming, which meant the prospectors had to seize land from the region's tribes. For the next ten years genocide occurred in California and whites killed Indians to take their land. Tell the class about the infamous Indian Island Massacre. http://www.northcoastjournal.com/humboldt/genocide...