2010.54.9465

Poster has brown borders on the left and right, triangular pattern borders on the top and bottom. Middle of the poster is a painting of Miners digging for gold. In the middle is a large hole in the ground. To the right is a man panning for gold. Underneath him is a large holding a pile of gold and a gold skull ring. At the bottom is a red tractor with four scoopers. To the left are two women working in a field. Top left has three Native American Indians , one is fishing and the other two are working in a field. At the top is a scene of a village. Left side of poster has: "Gold / Greed / Genocide / Over 150,000 Native Americans / Lived sustainably in California prior / to the gold rush. They had existed / for many centuries, supporting / themselves mostly by hunting / gathering and fishing.This life / changed drastically in 1848 when / James Marshall discovered the / yellow metal in the American / River at Coloma, in Northern / California. By 1870, there was an / estimated native population of only / 31,000 California Indians left. / Over 60 percent of these / indigenous people died from / disease introduced by hundreds / of thousands of so-called / 49ers. However, local tribes / were also systematically / chased off their lands, marched / to missions and reservations, / enslaved and brutally massacred." This is followed by more information about the painting and the artist.