AMER IND M10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Current History, Ghost Dance, Plains Indians
3 Oct 2016
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Indians have been used as laborers for years. Americans didn"t make much of a distinction between native americans and hispanics. California has the largest amount of indian reservations (104) there is 32 in. Highway systems in ca may travel through reservations. Time period in which indians haven"t had control is ~100-150 years versus the. Indians may have been here as far back as 40k years. Northern california is part of the nw coast complex: this is people dependent on salmon, live in rainforests and use wooden materials, the influences from norcal spread into socal. Exists between sierra nevada and rocky mountains. As glaciers melted and moved, they scraped the ground clear of any land (left desert) Socal indians were in contact with people from mexico and nevada. There was large scale exports from socal traditions to these states but not the other way around. Catalina soapstone deposits were found in mexico.
