The Hispanic American History Journal
An archive of English-language articles on the internet

Many white Americans, in defense of Native Americans, have been vandalizing
​Hispanic statues all over the United States. And yet they don’t know that . . . 

THE AMERICAN GENOCIDE
​BEGAN AFTER THE SPANISH LEFT ...

And that is was committed by their own white ancestors!

Did Colonists Give Infected Blankets to Native Americans as Biological Warfare?

There’s evidence that British colonists in 18th-century America gave Native Americans smallpox-infected blankets at least once—but did it work?

By Patrick L. Kiger - NOV 25, 2019 - HISTORY.COM
North American colonists’ warfare against North Americans often was horrifyingly brutal. But one method they appear to have used—perhaps just once—shocks even more than all the bloody slaughter: The gifting of blankets and linens contaminated with smallpox. Read more . . .

American-Indian Wars

​By History.com editors - Nov 17, 2019
From the moment English colonists arrived in Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607, they shared an uneasy relationship with the Native Americans (or Indians) who had thrived on the land for thousands of years. At the time, millions of indigenous people were scattered across North America in hundreds of different tribes. Between 1622 and the late 19th century, a series of wars known as the American-Indian Wars took place between Indians and American settlers, mainly over land control. Read more . . .

When Native Americans Were
Slaughtered in the Name of ‘Civilization’

​By Donald L Fisico August 16, 2019 - History.com
​From the time Europeans arrived on American shores, the frontier—the edge territory between white man’s civilization and the untamed natural world—became a shared space of vast, clashing differences that led the U.S. government to authorize over 1,500 wars, attacks and raids on Indians, the most of any country in the world against its indigenous people. By the close of the Indian Wars in the late 19th century, fewer than 238,000 indigenous people remained, a sharp decline from the estimated 5 million to 15 million living in North America when Columbus arrived in 1492. Read more . . . ​

California’s Little-Known Genocide

Up to 16,000 Native Americans were murdered in cold blood after California became a state

​By Erin Blackmore July 1, 2019
“Gold! Gold from the American River!” Samuel Brannan walked up and down the streets of San Francisco, holding up a bottle of pure gold dust. His triumphant announcement, and the discovery of gold at nearby Sutter’s Mill in 1848, ushered in a new era for California—one in which millions of settlers rushed to the little-known frontier in a wild race for riches.
But though gold spelled prosperity and power for the white settlers who arrived in California in 1849 and after, it meant disaster for the state’s peaceful indigenous population. Read more . . . 

Op-Ed: It’s time to acknowledge
​the genocide of California’s Indians

By Benjamin Madley - May 22, 2016 - LATimes
Between 1846 and 1870, California’s Indian population plunged from perhaps 150,000 to 30,000. Diseases, dislocation and starvation caused many of these deaths, but the near-annihilation of the California Indians was not the unavoidable result of two civilizations coming into contact for the first time. It was genocide, sanctioned and facilitated by California officials. Read more . . .