California's population consisted of about 6,500 Californios (people of Spanish or Mexican decent), 700 foreigners (primarily Americans), and 150,000 Native Americans, whose numbers had been cut ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif.--California’s Asian population grew by 25 percent in the past decade, making it the fastest growing ethnic group in the nation’s most populous state, according to new data ...

But as miners became increasingly territorial over their claims, California’s Native American population—many of whom had been enslaved by earlier settlers during California’s days as a Mexican ...