“They don’t teach this anymore?”
I went through the CA Public Education system from Kindergarten to High School.
Throughout elementary school and middle school we were taught about the CA Indians. We even had field trips to village sites in the Sierras to see where they ground acorns and caught salmon.
What stood out was just how easy these Indians had it compared to other tribes. Food, shelter and weather was all figured out for them, all they had to do was use the abundance.
Millions of Salmon would come up rushing rivers, without fail. All the had to do was spear them with a stick, then dry and smoke.
A single valley oak would produce a TON of acorns.
Every river out of the Sierra had a tribe. They would migrate up and down that river with the seasons, winters in the Valley, summers up high.
A land of plenty, and then some.
Same here. I'm sure it still is. But these victim groups don't just want the history known, they want to revise it to make the European pioneers and missionaries all devils.
One of my shirt tail relatives has a ranch in the Sierra foothills near Fresno. Lots of native inhabitation evidence. Pockets in the granite where they crushed acorns etc. Compared to the plains it was nirvana.