An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873

Benjamin Madley is an historian of Native America, the United States, and colonialism in world history. Born in Redding, California, he spent much of his childhood in Karuk Country near the Oregon border where he became interested in the relationship between colonizers and indigenous peoples. He writes about Native Americans as well as colonialism in Africa, Australia, and Europe, often applying a transnational and comparative approach.