Timeline of Genocide Incidents in the South Central Coast Region
CONTENT WARNING: Many of the primary sources linked on this timeline contain racist language or sentiment and graphic accounts of settler-colonial violence against indigenous people.
| Appx.* | Date | Number killed
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Location | Source | Source files |
| I | Before January 27, 1851 | 3 | Tejon Rancho | James McMany in Hayes Scrapbooks, Vol. 39, item 1 | http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0028a.pdf |
| III | Before January 27, 1851 | ~40 | Tejon Rancho | James McMany in Hayes Scrapbooks, Vol. 39, item 1; Lewis Granger, February 4, 1851 in DAC, February 14, 1851, 2 | http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0710.pdf
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| II | On or before May 23, 1851 | 1 | At or near “the San Francisco ranch.” | LAS, May 24, 1851, 2 | |
| II | Before November 14, 1851 | 1 | Santa Barbara | Los Angeles Star or San Diego Herald summarized in SDU, November 14, 1851, 2 | http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0170a.jpg |
| II | May 11, 1852 | 2 | Mission of San Buenaventura | Gonzales-Day, Lynching in the West, 210 | http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0194a.pdf |
| II | June, 1858 | 1 | San Luis Obispo, San Luis Obispo County | Gonzales-Day, Lynching in the West, 219 | http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0393a.pdf |
TOTAL ESTIMATED NUMBER KILLED IN REGION: 48
*Appendix (Appx.) refers to the reference’s location in:
Benjamin Madley, An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2016.
For full bibliographical references please refer to the text or Atlas credits & references
Abbreviations used in timeline:
DAC: Daily Alta Californian newspaper (San Francisco)
LAS: Los Angeles Star newspaper
SDU Sacramento Daily Union newspaper
For full bibliographical references please refer to the text or Atlas credits & references