Even in the 20th century, people had attitudes towards indians. Navajo thought CA indians were bad. What it does to people, is to make views towards them degrading and worthless. Salves had the concsious of pple who came into CA murdered indians and indian hunting was an actual sport. Destoryed their land and slayed their children.
The earliest settler ideas depend on one's own view of what reality is. Native American Indians were viewed as most primitive of the North American indians and Infereiors of the better known.
California lacks the tendecey to understand the importance of native Indians and their valuable culture. Some historians describe them as prehistoric, savage and stone age. This is imperialicaly wrong. In the last 25 yrs, anthropologists have become more sophistacted in their views towards them. They have restored them to rightful place historically, because they truly were a dynamic culture.
In 50,000 bc-15,000 bc ancerestors of native americans, also known......
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