army was donating all of the weapons and ammunition to militia shoulds, that the federal government later reimburses the state of california over $900,000 to pay for militias and then that the united states army is also involved and they actually killed more people than the california militiamen killed, and in total the numbers are staggering. well know that there's this great population decline, but this book actually documents in almost 200 pages of apen dissees all of the killings and what we have learned is at an absolute minimum the village'll teens and militiamen and united states mayor soldiers killed at a minimum 9,400 california indian people, perhaps as many as 16,000, and probably thousands of others whose deaths were not recorded in the ledgers and the letters and journals and newspapers and official reports of the day, that i combed over for years in order to bring this material together. now, it might seem i macabre or a fetish but i wanted to present in some way a kind of memorial to all the fallen california indian people who were victims of this state sponsored mass murder. there was day when i was dying m

militia. the federal government later reimburses the state of california over $900,000 to pay the militia and then the united states army is also involved in actually killed more people than the californian militiamen killed. total the numbers are quite staggering. we know there's this great population decline but this book documents in almost 200 pages of appendices all of the killings. what we have learned at an absolute minimum these vigilante militiamen and united states army soldiers killed 9400 california indian people and perhaps as many as 16,000 and probably thousands of others whose deaths were not recorded in the ledgers and journals and newspapers and official reports of the day that i combed over for years in order to bring this material together. they must have seemed macabre or like an adequate and fetish but what i wanted to do here was present in some way a kind of memorial to all of the fallen california indian people who were the victim of this state-sponsored mass murder. there was a day when i was doing my research. i pumped literally into marvel flynn. all of the names th

one of the california state militia units responsible for killing hundreds of indian people come over 280 by their own official reports, perhaps 400 or more according to journalists and eyewitness accounts. so the very history of this genocide is woven into the states place names so the way we see the cartography of california represents us not in terms of letting people know that here in massacre happened, here are a great enslavemen a gf california indian people have been, here on this reservation hundreds of people starve to death. but rather in the celebration of the people who planned, paid for and carried out and this is one of the things i hope this book might help change and i should say that on wednesday i had the opportunity to speak with the governor in california to present this book in the capital to him and the cabinet and the california indian leaders and he is going to acknowledge that this was what he calls an actual genocide so it is a rare moment for a historian to actually have impact on public discourse and what i hope can come out of this is a wider dialogue abou

states into the 20th century. and for good measure he was also a major general of the california militia. so that's not bad for one person to do in that short period of time. well, there's a problem. i've given you a lot of successes and i've told you how many people thought he was a total loser. and it didn't take me long even as dumb as i am, but it didn't take me long to figure out there's a difference between the halleck in the pre-civil war years and the halleck in the civil war years. there was a matter he was a success at one time, he say a failure at another time. well, it was january i'm guessing about 2000 or so -- 1999, but i'm giving a talk about halleck. the civil war education convention has a symposium. i gave a talk and confessed to the audience i really didn't know much about halleck and didn't understand why he had such a contrasting personality, successful yet a failure it seems. so i asked these people, and i said spread the word. i'm writing letters to the editors all over the place asking for any information on henry halleck, particularly this question of why he's a

textbooks and colleges and universities of the united states into the 20th century and for good measure, he was also major general of the california militia. so that's not bad for one person to do in that short period of time. well, there's a problem, is there not? i told you about successes and i told you how many people thought he was a total loser, and it didn't take me long even as dumb as i am, and it didn't take me long to figure out that there say difference between halleck and the pre-civil war years and halleck in the civil war years. he was a success at one time he was a failure at another time. well, it was january of about -- i'm guessing 2000 or so, 1999 and i'm giving a talk about halleck to you familiar with the civil war education association and has a symposium in florida and many of you i know go there in sarasota. well, i gave some sort of talk on halleck and i confessed to the audience that i didn't really know much about halleck, and i didn't understand why he had such contrasting -- such a contrasting personality, successful, yet a failure, it seemed. so i asked these people and i said i'm writing to letters to the e

understanding is this group and the militia that has stated that they're going to be there to protect this group has those permits. however, federal law defers to californiate law, which prohibits open carrying firearms. the we are asking our national park service to enforce our california state laws. >> supervisor, you're talking more about crissy field. commercial and tourist areas, parks and plazas and public thoroughfares. union square, this is wide seeping and would be one of the toughest bans in the country. >> absolutely. there will be a declared armed militia regarding this event. it has taken us off guard. what we're going to do, while we can't introduce and enforce or pass a law before this saturday, what i am going to introduce as soon as we get back in early september, the board of supervisors, is one of the strictest laws potentially on the books in our country that would prohibit the public carrying of firearms in tourist areas, commercial areas, places where you have strong public interest to picture that san francisco residents in particular know that public safety comes first out of city hall. we will not allow an event like this to take