No other way to describe it, and that’s the way it needs to be described in the history books,” Newsom said. Joseph L. James, chairman of the Yurok Tribe, which has territory near the Northern California coast, said it is significant to hear the governor acknowledge the state’s efforts to eliminate indigenous communities around the time of the Gold Rush. Newsom is not the first to apologize for the treatment of Indigenous people. Bill Walker issued an apology to the state’s indigenous people, listing a series of wrongs. Newsom pointed to California’s efforts to remove American Indians as people flooded the state searching for gold in the mid-19th century.

Source: thestar June 18, 2019 23:09 UTC