LOL.
I don’t know how familiar you are with California history, but, at nearly 70 years old and being a fan of my home state’s history, California’s indians were merely peaceful hunters and gathers.
Very peaceful. No Mayans or Aztecs here!
It seems both illogical and improbable that only California Indians would be peaceful flower children, when there are thousands of Indian words for ‘slave’ and just as many for ‘war’. Several California Indian legends speak of slaughtering the ‘people who lived in the forests’ when they arrived in California, so peaceful they were also not. Besides the atrocities committed on remote gold miners and prospectors up and down the state, there’s this:
“While it is not uncommon for some textbooks to give the impression that the California Native Americans passively accepted the missions, Spanish domination, and conversion to Christianity, this was not the case. In fact, the initial reception of the Franciscans by the California Indians was anything but hospitable. Resistance to the Spanish Franciscans was organized by village chiefs and influential shamans and this resistance was expressed through attacks on both the Spanish soldiers and the Franciscan missionaries. ...In 1771, Indians attacked the San Gabriel Mission in the Los Angeles basin...In 1775, the Kumeyaay at the Mission of San Diego revolted, burning the mission...In 1776.. Indians attacked the San Luis Obispo Mission and set fire to the roofs...In 1785, Toypurina (Gabrielino) convinced Indians from six villages to participate in a revolt against the San Gabriel Mission. Toypurina was a medicine woman...In 1811, Nazario, a Mission Indian cook at the San Diego Mission... poisoned one of the priests. (a traditional Indian way to kill)...In 1812, a group of Indian converts at the Santa Cruz mission [revolted] ...In 1824 the Chumash at the La Purísima Mission revolted [with a force of 2000]...In 1828, Mission Indians, under the leadership of Yokuts chiefs Estanislao (Stanislaus) and Cipriano, revolted ...In 1830 [the Miwak revolted and stole Kit Carson’s horses]
http://nativeamericannetroots.net/diary/525
“Before the colonial era, the 5 to 10 million Native people who lived north of the Rio Grande spoke over three hundred different languages and likely had thousands of different terms relating to slavery.”
” In the Southwest, the captive exchange networks born out of the melding of Indigenous and Spanish cultures endured until the 1880s.... In the Pacific Northwest, indigenous slavery likely expanded in both scope and severity from the late eighteenth century until the late nineteenth century, as trade rivalries for European goods intensified Indigenous warfare. “
p.s., I don’t really believe all Mexicans are Aztecs, but since some are known to show up to every darn protest with full Aztec gear with claims to ownership of ‘Atzalan’, I’m insisting they own the history of what they claim as ‘Atzalan’ - one of murder, genocidal slaughter for entertainment and, of course, slavery. Or they could stop calling themselves Aztecs and go back to the fascade of the peaceful victimized.