Benjamin Madley On The California Yuki Tribe Analysis

In the article written by Benjamin Madley on the California Yuki Indians, he talks about how a mass population of the Yuki Indians in 1854 and was rapidly banished due to a war by the Missourians. Madley further emphasise on how the declined population of the Yuki tribe was so destructive. And how a vast majority on California’s natives were soon disappearing as he refers the article to “Defining Genocide in American History”. He uses many detailed examples to further argue his article. By using pictures and graphs as well as defining what Genocide means.
One of the main great example Madley uses in his writing is how he gives such a concrete definition of what the meaning of Genocide is “Acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial, or religious group, as such: (a) Killing members of the group; (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its
One of the native tribes that lived there was the Yuki tribe. The Yuki tribe lived in Round Valley, in the northern area of Mendocino county with 25,000 acres of beautiful land. Until one day (1854) a few Missourian Horsemen decided to just take over, and violently decided to shoot and kill any Yuki Indian that were in their way. By the end of that day they killed an estimate of 32 and more of the Indian tribe. And the aftermath of the war just caused less and less of the population to disappear due to massive killings, abuductions, and dehumanization. Madley does state that during that time period, the government officials were involved to see what was going on, however they didn’t provide any support to help out the Yuki tribe. Another great example as stated, “ International criminal lawyers call this "specific intent," meaning destruction must be consciously desired, or purposeful. Yet "specific intent" does not require a specific "motive," (Madley 2008).