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DESCRIPTION:Unitarian Universalist Humanists of San Francisco - Zoom Presentation  -  
 Sunday, November 29, 1:00 pm\nDr. Benjamin Madley, author of An American 
 Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 
 1846-1873 \n\nWe are honored to be able to present Professor Benjamin 
 Madley at this holiday weekend Zoom meeting. In our quest to educate 
 ourselves about American history, and after celebrating our most American 
 holiday, Thanksgiving, it is fitting that we look closely at the history of 
 our country, and our state in particular. \n\nProfessor Madley is Associate 
 Professor of History at UCLA, where he writes about Native America, the 
 United States, and colonialism in world history. Born in Redding, 
 California, he spent much of his childhood in Karuk Country near the Oregon 
 border where he became interested in relationships between colonizers and 
 Indigenous peoples. He will speak about his break-through book, published 
 by Yale University Press, An American Genocide: The United States and the 
 California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873. \n\nMadley describes pre-contact 
 California before explaining how the Gold Rush stirred vigilante violence 
 against California Indians. He narrates the rise of a state-sanctioned 
 killing machine and the broad societal, judicial, and political support for 
 genocide. Many participated: vigilantes, volunteer state militiamen, U.S. 
 Army soldiers, U.S. congressmen, California governors, and others. The 
 state and federal governments spent at least $1,700,000 on campaigns 
 against California Indians. \n\nThis book received the Los Angeles Times 
 Book Prize for History, the Raphael Lemkin Book Award from the Institute 
 for the Study of Genocide, the Charles Redd Center / Phi Alpha Theta Award 
 for the Best Book on the American West, the California Book Awards Gold 
 Medal for Californiana, and many other awards. According to former 
 California Governor Jerry Brown, "Madley corrects the record with his 
 gripping story of what really happened: the actual genocide of a vibrant 
 civilization, thousands of years in the making."\n\nPlease join us for this 
 Zoom meeting using the link 
 below:\n\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/87119438221?pwd=YUNnVkEwYUh2d29tWnpDamJoelo2QT09\nMeeting 
 ID: 871 1943 8221\nPasscode: 025469\nDial by your location       +1 669 900 
 6833 US (San Jose)\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/11/11/18838416.php
SUMMARY:Dr. Benjamin Madley, "An American Genocide" Zoom Presentation
LOCATION:First Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco\nZOOM PRESENTATION
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/11/11/18838416.php
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