California's shameful history

In today's SF Chronicle (Newsom apologizes for native 'genocide'):

...In 1850, the state passed a law that removed tribes from their traditional lands, separated children from their families and forced Native Americans convicted of minor crimes such as loitering into indentured servitude.

The following year, according to the order, California’s first governor, Peter Burnett, told the Legislature that “a war of extermination will continue to be waged between the two races until the Indian race becomes extinct.” 

The state spent $1.3 million subsidizing dozens of militia campaigns against Native Americans over the next decade.

Various scholars have estimated that between 133,000 and 705,000 native people lived in what is now California when Europeans first arrived in the 18th century. The 1900 U.S. Census counted just over 15,000 Indians. Today, about 741,000 Californians identify as American Indian...

See also History: A nightmare from which we never awake.