California Indians 1846-1890

California became a state in 1850, ceded by Mexico by the treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, concluded February2, 1828, and proclaimed July4, 1848. From then until statehood, California had a military government until 1849, and then a local civil government. It never had a territorial form of government.

Gold was discovered in 1850 and rush of people over the land changed for ever the Indians way of life.

• California Indians

  • Round Valley Agency

  • Mission-Tule Consolidated Agency

  • Hoopa Valley Reservation

  • Mission Indians and Yuma and Tule River Reservations

  • Mission Indians and the 19 Mission Indian Reservations

• Indians in California 1846-1890

  • Indians in California 1890

• Mission-Tule consolidated Agency, Hoopa Valley Reservation

  • Report of Agent I. P. Fell

  • Hoopa Valley Indians

• Klamath River Reservation, Hoopa Valley Sub-agency

  • Klamath Indians off Reservations

• Tule River Reservation

• Mission Indians of California

  • The Pachanga Indians

  • Agua Caliente Indian Village

  • Coahuila Valley Mission Indians

  • Sabola Mission Indians

  • San Gorgonio Mission Indians

  • Pala, Pauma, La Jolla, and Rincon Mission Indians

  • Captain Grande Mission Indians

  • Mission Indians off Reservations

  • The Desert Indians

• Yuma Indian Reservation

  • Review of the Facts Concerning the Pumas

  • Report of Special Agent W. B. Ferreber M. D.

  • Round Valley Agency

  • Round Valley Reservation

Condition of the Indian by State, 1890

Notes About the Book:

Source:  Report on Indians Taxed and Indians not Taxed in the United States, Except Alaska at the Eleventh Census: 1890, Department of the Interior, Government Printing Office, Washington DC., 1894

A Report to the Secretary of War of the United States on Indian Affairs, by Rev. Jedidiah Morse, 1822, Printed by S. Converse

Online Publication: The manuscript was scanned and then ocr'd. Minimal editing has been done, and readers can and should expect some errors in the textual output. Several spellings have been used for the same tribe of Indians.

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