Perhaps they should be P-O’d at the ancestors of their fellow-travelers .... I believe that trappers & other despoilers of the environment from Russia used to be big players along the West coast from Alaska down thru California.
Well, maybe they can’t really pin a definite date on when those Russians started their depredations-after all they were in Alaska first, since it belonged to them-but everyone knows when Columbus got here, so he’s the easiest one to revile...