Students resumed classes at sonoma state today. Their campus was closed due to the fires. Abc 7 News Reporter Amy Hollyfield is there. A few special events planned for today, right . Reporter there are, jessica. This campus has a lot to be grateful for, but also some people who need some support and some care from fellow students. There were some students and Staff Members who did lose their homes including the university president. She lost her home in santa rosa. But the campus is fine. It was not touched by fire. It was saved. A lot to be grateful for there. They will start the day off with coffee and doughnuts in the student center. Everyone invited to that. Theyll also have a banner that people can sign to thank the firefighters for all that they did during this firefight. And then late this afternoon theyre inviting everyone to come and get around that banner and take a picture so they can give it to the firefighters. So they are certainly going to mark what happened in this comm
All weekend, American History tv is featuring chico, california. Cspan cities tour staff recently visited sites showcasing his history. General john bidwell founded the city of in 1860. A town of 92,000 residents is home to california state university. Learn more on American History tv all weekend. Were standing at a place that holds profound significant for the Indigenous People here in this part of what we now call butte county. These people regard this very place as the particular location where in their cosmology the creator had humans emerge into the world. It is also alumni glenn. With the discovery of gold not too far south of here, and the inability to keep that discovery spread. The news quickly and the ratio of settlers to native people began to radically shift. Prior to the gold rush, there would have been somewhere on the order of maybe under 5000 settlers in all of california. Have55, that would skyrocketed to above 50,000 settlers. Were fraught. Ons at everyvery group mom
The world. It is also alumni glenn. With the discovery of gold not too far south of here and the inability to keep that discovery secret, the news quickly spread. And the ratio of settlers to native people began to radically shift. Prior to the gold rush, there would have been somewhere on the order of maybe under 5000 settlers in all of california. By 1855, that would have skyrocketed to above 50,000 settlers. And the relations were fraught. Not for every group at every moment, but there was a profound sense of racism towards native peoples. The general epithet used was digger indians. In other words, they were regarded as sub human. Because they did not have the kind of technological accoutrements that European American settlers considered standard. Its not because they were not clever enough to figure it out. Because those things were irrelevant to their daily lives. They were able to go, on the coast, you know, when the tide went out here in this part of North Central valley, the m
The world. It is also alumni glenn. With the discovery of gold not too far south of here and the inability to keep that discovery secret, the news quickly spread. And the ratio of settlers to native people began to radically shift. Prior to the gold rush, there would have been somewhere on the order of maybe under 5000 settlers in all of california. By 1855, that would have skyrocketed to above 50,000 settlers. And the relations were fraught. Not for every group at every moment, but there was a profound sense of racism towards native peoples. The general epithet used was digger indians. In other words, they were regarded as sub human. Because they did not have the kind of technological accoutrements that European American settlers considered standard. Its not because they were not clever enough to figure it out. Because those things were irrelevant to their daily lives. They were able to go, on the coast, you know, when the tide went out here in this part of North Central valley, the m
The world. It is also alumni glenn. With the discovery of gold not too far south of here and the inability to keep that discovery secret, the news quickly spread. And the ratio of settlers to native people began to radically shift. Prior to the gold rush, there would have been somewhere on the order of maybe under 5000 settlers in all of california. By 1855, that would have skyrocketed to above 50,000 settlers. And the relations were fraught. Not for every group at every moment, but there was a profound sense of racism towards native peoples. The general epithet used was digger indians. In other words, they were regarded as sub human. Because they did not have the kind of technological accoutrements that European American settlers considered standard. Its not because they were not clever enough to figure it out. Because those things were irrelevant to their daily lives. They were able to go, on the coast, you know, when the tide went out here in this part of North Central valley, the m