San Francisco
May 01, 2020
3 minutes
BY SHONA MAY FINDLAY
alifornia’s Bay Area is rife with contradictions. The region’s reputation as the land of opportunity harks back to the Gold Rush, when San Francisco grew from a small settlement of about 200 residents in 1846 to a boomtown of around 36,000 by 1852. As a result of settlers flocking to the frontier, however, 80 percent of the state’s Indigenous communities were wiped out by disease, displacement, and genocide. Today, the Bay Area has come full circle.
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