By James J. Rawls
When the 1st Anglo-Americans visited California early within the 19th century, the longer term country used to be nonetheless a distant province of the Spanish empire. Early viewers, full of a feeling of American’s appear future, defined the missionary monks and their Indian converts when it comes to the Black Legend of Spanish abuse of local peoples. Later, whilst the Anglos settled in California and assumed the approach to life of the Mexican rancheros, they considered the Indians as a primitive laboring classification, docile and exploitable. ultimately, after 1849, the gold rush introduced millions of latest white immigrants, who taken care of the primitive "diggers" easily as threats to their very own prosperity and protection. Bounty hunters shot down grownup Indians, and Indian little ones and teenagers have been offered into slavery as "apprentices."
The engine during this evolution of white attitudes used to be the altering wishes of the white inhabitants. desiring to discredit Hispanic claims to the land, American observers observed the Indians as sufferers; desiring an inexpensive exertions strength themselves, they considered the Indians as an invaluable category; wanting unimpeded entry to the assets of the Golden nation, they handled the Indians easily as stumbling blocks to be eliminated.
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