On Tuesday, 169 years later, California’s governor finally apologized for the likes of Bloody Island. Columnist LATimesSkelton's latest:
Gov. Gavin Newsom, left, bows his head as Assemblyman James Ramos of the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians opens a meeting Tuesday with tribal leaders from around the state at the future site of the California Indian Heritage Center in West Sacramento.
There’s a historical marker that reads: “On this island in 1850, U.S. soldiers nearly annihilated all its inhabitants for the murder of two white men. Doubt exists of these Indians’ guilt.” Technically, state government wasn’t the assassin at Clear Lake. The U.S. Cavalry was. California was still four months short of official statehood. But the carnage unquestionably reflected the prevailing California political sentiment.The next January, California’s first elected governor, Peter Burnett, declared in his State of the State address: “That a war of extermination will continue to be waged between the two races until the Indian race becomes extinct must be expected.
“And so,” he concluded, “I’m here to say the following: I’m sorry on behalf of the state of California.”It does mean that California’s government finally acknowledges that a significant number of the state’s early elected officials and pioneer citizens were a bunch of greedy, bigoted thugs. It’s healthy to admit that.
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