What happened to the Native Americans who lived in California before the gold rush? They were pushed out.
They taught the 49’ers how to pan for gold.
They learned to live with the miners even though they did not like it and they did not care about gold.
All of their gold was stolen from their homes by the miners.

They were pushed out.

Explanation:

The Gold Rush in California started in 1849. This led to about (300,000) three hundred thousands Americans moving to California during this period.

However, before the influx of the gold seekers, about 150,000 native Americans are living in the area, and by the end of the gold rush period, many of the 120,000 Native Americans were dead, some as a result of diseases, lack of food, deliberate murder, and forced servitude.

In the end, only a few of about 30,000 native Americans were left, most of them were pushed out to reservations, far away from their homelands.