From Colonialism to Denial of California Genocide to Misrepresentations

@article{Fenelon2014FromCT,
  title={From Colonialism to Denial of California Genocide to Misrepresentations},
  author={James V. Fenelon and Clifford E. Trafzer},
  journal={American Behavioral Scientist},
  year={2014},
  volume={58},
  pages={29 - 3}
}
Indigenous peoples’ complex analytical issues include historical misrepresentation, struggles over sovereignty and autonomy, and Euro-American “conquest” including invasion, genocide, culturicide, and coercive assimilation, ranging over half a millennium of invasion and colonization. Perhaps the most critically contentious of these issues is genocide. We review historical construction of racial formation and cultural domination, focus on California genocide of Native peoples, and present… 
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