[b]Benjamin Madley[/b] is an historian of Native America, the United States, and colonialism in world history. Born in Redding, California, Ben spent much of his childhood in Karuk Country near the Oregon border where he became interested in the relationship between colonizers and indigenous peoples. He writes about American Indians as well as colonial genocides in Africa, Australia, and Europe, often applying a transnational and comparative approach. Yale University Press published his first book, An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873, in May. He received the 2016 Heyday Books History Award for this work. Ben's current research explores Native American labor in the making of the western United States. http://www.history.ucla.edu/faculty/benjamin-madley