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California enslaves Native children.

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The California Indian Act authorizes the arrest of “vagrant” Native people who can then be “hired out” to the highest bidder. This enables white settlers to go before a justice of the peace to obtain Native children for “indenture.” More than 20,000 Indigenous people in California are affected, including more than 4,000 children who are kidnapped from their parents and held in bondage as servants or farm laborers.