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Mass Murder in California's Empty Quarter: A Tale of Tribal Treachery at the Cedarville Rancheria

Mass Murder in California's Empty Quarter: A Tale of Tribal Treachery at the Cedarville Rancheria - Hardcover

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Availability:In StockContributor:Ray A. MarchPublish date:2020-10-01Pages:240
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bison BooksISBN-13:9781496217561ISBN-10:149621756XUPC:9781496217561Book Category:Social Science, True CrimeBook Subcategory:Ethnic Studies, MurderBook Topic:American, Mass MurderSize:9.20 x 6.36 x 0.94 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SC3RNAVHVW
Mass Murder in California's Empty Quarter exposes a story of mass murder, a community's racism, and tribal treachery in a small Paiute tribe. On February 20, 2014, an unseasonably warm winter day for the little agriculture town of Alturas, California, Cherie Rhoades walked into the Cedarville Rancheria's Paiute tribal offices. In the space of nine minutes she killed four people and wounded two others using two 9mm semiautomatic handguns. In that time she slayed half of her immediate family and became only the second woman, and the first Native American woman, to commit mass murder in the United States.

Ray A. March threads the story through the afternoon of the murders and explores the complex circumstances that led to it, including conditions of extreme economic disparity, privations resulting from tribal disenrollment, ineptness at the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and family dysfunction coupled with a possible undiagnosed mental illness.

This account of the tragic murders and the deplorable conditions leading up to them shed light on the formidable challenges Native Americans face in the twenty-first century as they strive to govern themselves under the guise of U.S.-sanctioned sovereignty.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Bison BooksISBN-13:9781496217561ISBN-10:149621756XUPC:9781496217561Book Category:Social Science, True CrimeBook Subcategory:Ethnic Studies, MurderBook Topic:American, Mass MurderSize:9.20 x 6.36 x 0.94 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SC3RNAVHVW
Ray A. March is an independent journalist whose articles and essays have appeared in Time, the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, and elsewhere. He is the author of several books, including Alabama Bound: Forty-Five Years inside a Prison System and A River in Ruin: The Story of the Carmel River (Nebraska, 2012).



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