The real story, with names: genocide by law, bounty and settler
Pattern: documents line upLens: our reading
Year: 1846
SUMMARYThe real story, with names: genocide by law, bounty and settler (Nov 4, 2026). Tito: "you're protecting feelings while my people were genocided... give me the real story." RECORD, California: Governor Peter Burnett, in his annual message (January 1851): "a war of extermination will continue to be waged between the races until the Indian race becomes extinct." The state paid for militia campaigns against the nations (about $1.3 million in war bonds, 1851–52), later reimbursed by Congress. Benjamin Madley, An American Genocide (Yale, 2016), counts roughly 9,500–16,000 California Native people killed by settlers, militias and soldiers from 1846 to 1873. The 1850 Act for the Government and Protection of Indians allowed Native people to be bound out as laborers. RECORD, Minnesota: after the Dakota War of 1862, Lincoln approved the hanging of 38 Dakota men at Mankato (December 26, 1862), the largest mass execution in US history; Congress voided the Dakota treaties and expelled them from the state (1863); the state's adjutant general offered bounties for Dakota scalps ($25, later raised to $200). Settlers, many of them new German and Scandinavian immigrants, took the land. RECORD, Colorado: Sand Creek (November 29, 1864): Colonel John Chivington's volunteers killed about 150–200 Cheyenne and Arapaho, most of them women, children and elders, under a US flag and a white flag. Chivington was a Methodist minister, and Colorado's Grand Lodge records him as its first Grand Master (1861): a tier 1 Lodge Library entry (verify against the Grand Lodge of Colorado's own history). RECORD, ordinary participation: settler volunteers, county militias and scalp-bounty hunters did much of the killing, alongside the army; immigrants who arrived poor took the homesteads
PATTERNgovernors announced extermination, legislatures paid for it, Congress reimbursed it, ministers and lodge leaders led it, and settlers, new arrivals among them, carried it out and kept the land
LENS (WW9)genocide, named and paid for on paper. WW9 rule, why: name who did it and who paid for it. Blaming a whole people by birth is the method used against the nations; the receipts above name the guilty without it.