120,000 Dead: California’s Hidden Genocide

120,000 dead.
When gold was discovered in 1848, California didn’t just take land—it funded the extermination of its Native people. Entire communities were destroyed, villages burned, women and children enslaved. Local towns even placed bounties on scalps.

From Clear Lake to Round Valley, the story is brutal, shocking, and rarely taught. California’s Native population collapsed from 150,000 to barely 30,000 in a single generation.

This is the genocide hidden behind the Gold Rush.

Watch until the end—you’ll never see California history the same way again.

📌 Sources: Archival newspapers, state records, and research by historian Benjamin Madley (*An American Genocide*).

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