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Questions _ “Democratic Death Squads of Northern California” (Brendan Lindsay)
1.Explain what Lindsay means by “democratic” in this chapter. What were the democratic institutions that nineteenth-century Euro-American settlers made use of in order to carry out a campaign of genocide against Native peoples in California? Name at least three such institutions, and briefly explain how these institutions were harnessed to the project of genocide.
2.Explain and give examples of how the following settler activities interfered with Native communities’ ability to survive, leading to intensified conflict between Native and settler populations and ultimately paving the way for genocide: (a) cattle ranching, (b) recreational hunting, (c) mining
3.Discuss the activities of the Eel River Rangers. If the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide had existed during the nineteenth century, how might it have been applied to the actions of the Eel River Rangers? Which individuals might have been prosecuted under the Convention, and why? How might individual members of the Eel River Rangers have attempted to argue that their actions were not prosecutable under the Convention? Explain.
4.Although the primary objective of settler colonialism is to destroy Native societies in order to claim land, rather than to use Native people as slave labor, it is also true that many Native people in California were enslaved during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Discuss some of the examples Lindsay cites of enslavement of Native people.
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