California Governor Apologizes for State-Sanctioned Genocide of Native Americans

Native Americans have been waiting a long been time for the United States and its state governments to apologize for the violent treatment of their people. On Tuesday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom took that step.

Standing at the future site of the California Indian Heritage Center, Newsom offered an official apology to the Native people of the state in the form of an executive order. The order said the relationship between the state and the Indigenous population is one “fraught with violence, exploitation, dispossession and the attempted destruction of tribal communities,” which Newsom highlighted by reading the 1851 words of Peter Burnett, California’s first governor: “A war of extermination will continue to be waged between the two races until the Indian race becomes extinct.”

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