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[Matthew McDaniel]

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Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 13:16:35 +0700
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 Randy Milliken wrote a very well researched book about
 the way California Indians were forced into the missions.  It is called "A
 Time of Little Choice."  What you document happening today is very close to
 what he documented in the late 18th-early 19th century here in California.
 The Spanish came in, built missions, and proselytized village by village.
 When a critical mass of people left a village to go to the mission, those
 left were unable to keep themselves fed, and culturally sustained, and so had
 little choice - they had to go where their people were.  They were surrounded
 by needs - needs for food, and for ritual, and for Home.  that meant
 community.  And then disease hit - cholera, brought by the Euros, in 1827 and
 1837 - massive wipeouts of people - and also measles, chickenpox, smallpox. .
 .  killed Euros too, of course. . .

 Randall Milliken, A Time of Little Choice, The Disintegration of Tribal
 Culture in the San Francisco Bay Area 1769-1819, Ballena Press, Menlo Park,
 CA, 1995.

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