Slavery by Another Name

Quiet Canines Podcast · Oct 23, 2026 · 2m

This law allowed white people to kidnap Native American children and turn them into slaves.

This is the genocide you’ve never heard of.

The year was 1850 when the California legislature passed An Act for the Government and Protection of Indians.

Under this law, any white person could declare Indians who were simply strolling about, who were not gainfully employed, to be vagrants. They could then take them before a justice of the peace, who would have those Indians seized and sold at public auction. And the person who bought them in, would have their labor for four months, without…