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Podcast: Queens of the Mines
Episode: Ni‘ka - Part 1 of 3 - FROM THE VAULT
Description: Wherever you are in this hemisphere, you are on Native land. Never forget, that before the Spanish arrived in California, for thousands of years, from sea to shining sea, this was indian country, with more than 300,000 Natives living here, representing more than 100 tribes, each with its individual traditions and cultures, most completely lost by the arrival of settlers. Write that down, and burn it into your brain.
Never forget that the Russians, European-American colonists, and Spanish missionaries‘ arrival on the Pacific coastline forever changed the native people’s way of life. The first known interaction with the Natives in California was...