EPISODE · Sep 18, 2021 · 29 MIN
Indians of California Described As Dark-Brown And Black - "The Ugly-Looking Naygur."
from Real Black Consciousness Forum · host Big Vjay
#CaliforniaIndians #Africans #American #BlackAmericans Source - Indians Of California: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Indians_of_California/BaToHQtsraMC?hl=en&gbpv=0 Join us as we have a conversation about the work of James J. Rawls, as he describes, the complexion and features of the California Indians as the same as Africans. When the first Anglo-Americans visited California early in the nineteenth century, the future state was still a remote province of the Spanish empire. Early visitors, filled with a sense of American’s Manifest Destiny, described the missionary priests and their Indian converts in terms of the Black Legend of Spanish abuse of native peoples. Later, when the Anglos settled in California and assumed the life-style of the Mexican rancheros, they viewed the Indians as a primitive laboring class, docile and exploitable. Finally, after 1849, the gold rush brought hundreds of thousands of new white immigrants, who treated the primitive "diggers" simply as threats to their own prosperity and security. Bounty hunters shot down adult Indians, and Indian children and young people were sold into slavery. (James Rawls) Make sure you join this conversation, like, share, and most importantly, comment! Thanks! RBCF!
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#CaliforniaIndians #Africans #American #BlackAmericans Source - Indians Of California: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Indians_of_California/BaToHQtsraMC?hl=en&gbpv=0 Join us as we have a conversation about the work of James J. Rawls, as he describes, the complexion and features of the California Indians as the same as Africans. When the first Anglo-Americans visited California early in the nineteenth century, the future state was still a remote province of the Spanish empire. Early visitors, filled with a sense of American’s Manifest Destiny, described the missionary priests and their Indian converts in terms of the Black Legend of Spanish abuse of native peoples. Later, when the Anglos settled in California and assumed the life-style of the Mexican rancheros, they viewed the Indians as a primitive laboring class, docile and exploitable. Finally, after 1849, the gold rush brought hundreds of thousands of new white immigrants, who treated the primitive "diggers" simply as threats to their own prosperity and security. Bounty hunters shot down adult Indians, and Indian children and young people were sold into slavery. (James Rawls) Make sure you join this conversation, like, share, and most importantly, comment! Thanks! RBCF!
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