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- Forced labor in California - Wikipedia
Settlers seeking gold and agricultural opportunities in California would exploit the Native Americans they encountered for labor and economic gains, often subjecting them to harsh working conditions in various industries including mining, agriculture, and ranching
- California Indian History – California Native American Heritage Commission
Despite a seemingly irrational murderous attack on Sacramento River Maidu Indian villages by U S Army forces under the command of John C Fremont, the majority of California Indians involved in that struggle aided the Americans as scouts, warrior-soldiers and wranglers
- Sneak Peek Part III: A History of the California Labor Movement
Creation of a Surplus Native American labor founded many of California’s industries The Indians generated agricultural products, and textile, leather, wood and metal goods, with which the missions supplied the adjacent presidios (military stockades) and traded with nearby pueblos and foreign ships for otherwise unavailable items
- Involuntary Servitude, Apprenticeship, and Slavery of Native Americans . . .
In the United States, enslaving Indigenous people, in one form or another, began in colonial America In what is now known as California, enslavement began with the Franciscan missions It continued in the form of legislated indentured servitude even when California entered the union as a “free” state
- Against Their Will: The Systematic Servitude of California Indians | We . . .
This powerful lesson invites 8th grade students to explore a critical yet often overlooked chapter in California’s history, the systematic servitude and exploitation of California Indian peoples
- California Indians – California Missions Foundation
In the missions, Native Americans received religious instruction and were expected to perform labor, such as building and farming for the maintenance of the community It was a life that was dramatically different from the life they knew before the Mission era
- NATIVE AMERICANS in the MISSION ECONOMY - FoundSF
Getting them to adjust to working required strict regimentation and often harsh discipline In contrast to their lives outside the mission, the missionized "neophyte" Native Americans lived in an atmosphere of repression and rigid intolerance, and the work they performed was forced labor
- California Indians and the Workaday West: - JSTOR
First, they show that converted Indians moved into the pastoral work force in Hispanic California, initially in the missions, and later on the Mexican ranchos 9 Second, they reveal that independent Indians also adapted new work and subsistence patterns associated with the horse
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