[Homestead] Southern California fires
EarthNSky
erthnsky at bellsouth.net
Thu Oct 25 22:27:28 EDT 2007
Questions and comments interspersed...
Don Bowen KI6DIU wrote:
> Someone mentioned about why people would want to move here. What about
> those that were here before, the native population?
I think most native populations were nomadic or semi-nomadic. If the
natural water sources aren't there, I would think it unlikely that
natives would take up permanent residence.
It has been estimated
> that 10% of the pre contact population of North America was in the area now
> known as California.
I was only talking about Southern California, basically LA and points south.
San Diego County has more Indian reservations than
> any other country in the US. The so called mission Indians were shoved
> onto small plots of land in areas where no one else want the land. These
> mission Indians had their culture destroyed by the enslavement by the
> Catholic church then shoved onto the poorest land available.
I understand. But, were the mission Indians truly native to the area as
permanent residents, or were they rounded up by the missionaries and
then shoved aside? Europeans move to a place and stay, and I can
imagine that they wouldn't like natives moving in, even seasonally to
hunt or fish. Likewise, I doubt the natives liked having their culture
eroded.
>
> This land was mostly purchased rather than set aside from government
> lands. The natives were allowed to own plots and attempt to farm rocky
> soil without water. With the advent of the casinos some tribes have done
> very well for themselves, $10 to $40K a month while other tribes get almost
> nothing. Tribes with the greatest income are stripping as many members as
> possible from their roles in order to get more for those remaining.
>
> The wealthy ones now rent out homes on the reservations. There is no code
> enforcement on the reservations for they put as many dilapidated mobile
> homes as possible on a plot. Other tribes with the casino gravy train are
> forced to live in poverty in very remote locations.
Ah, the disease of greed has taken hold..
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