segregation


 * __Segregation in the Mines__**

Should only white Americans be able to mine for California gold? Well, this is how the white miners thought it should be. They ignored, verbally and physically abused Native Indians and gold-seekers from different countries (The CA Gold Rush,Saffer pg.49). Between the other gold-seekers and Indians, the Indians were treated the worst. The Native Americans that live by hunting, fishing, and gathering plants in the area of the gold mines. The problem with the Native Americans was that their homes were either in the gold field or on the journey to them. This did not bother the white miners; the miners just did everything possible to get to their gold including driving the Indians out of their homes. The miners were so greedy that if the Native Americans didn't give up their claims the miners shot them. Also, mining companies paid Indians low wages to work in the gold mines, and merchants charged Indians an unfair price for goods, for example a pound of gold for a pound of raisins (The CA Gold Rush, Saffer pg.49).