Expertise
Brendan Lindsay is an associate professor of history at the California State University, Sacramento. He holds a PhD from the University of California, Riverside. He teaches California, Native American, and United States history. He is the author of the award-winning book, Murder State (University of Nebraska Press, 2012), which makes the case that genocide was committed in California against Native Americans during the nineteenth century by American settlers and miners using democracy as a genocidal mechanism. He is currently working on projects related to the abduction, sale, and abuse of Native American children in nineteenth-century California, the connections between genocide and settler colonialism in California and the West, and the ways humor was used to relieve cognitive dissonance by perpetrators of Native American genocide.