@MoaVideos My introduction as a teenager to this material was Dee Brown’s “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee,” which remains an important history, elegantly written, though I later realized how incomplete it was, partly because of discovering the California saga while reading Kroeber’s “Ishi.”
@MoaVideos The most complete survey of this material is David Stannard’s “American Genocide,” which has been under attack by wypipo apologists since it was published. My personal favorite is Alvin Josephy’s “The Nez Perce Indians and the Opening of the Northwest.”
@MoaVideos Part of what made the California genocide so disturbing is that it was carried out not by the cavalry but by ordinary people— you know, those noble pioneers who put a $100 bounty on Indian scalps, and then would round up hapless women and children and slaughter them.
