The gold rush of 1848 brought still more devastation. Violence, disease and loss overwhelmed the tribes. By 1870, an estimated 30,000 native people remained in the state of California, most on ...

“The Impact of the Gold Rush on Native Americans of California.” Designed for grades 8-12, the lesson plan is part of the ...

Here, families can learn more about the impact the California Gold Rush had on John Sutter and James Marshall, and can learn about the additional historical events the fort saw in its lifetime ...

In this lesson, students learn about the California Gold Rush of 1849 through miners ... various gold rushes throughout the world and the impact they had on migration and immigration.

"The post-gold rush era was the most dangerous time in our history to be a California Indian. Most people did not survive it," Lim said. Greed for gold in California was pushed through violent ...

Rohrbough, a historian and author of Days of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the American Nation. “There was no license you had to buy. There was no central authority. This was one of the ...

The nugget he had pulled from the mine near Sierraville, California, weighed a whopping eight pounds, so James Woolsey did what came naturally during the gold rush: he had his "likeness" taken to ...

LOS ANGELES— A Canadian mining company has announced it’s suspending a proposal to expand gold mining exploration and road building on California’s Conglomerate Mesa after the U.S. Bureau of Land ...