> INDIGENOUS PEOPLE were shaping the natural world even before white people arrived in what would become California. But European colonizers brought a new and

> INDIGENOUS PEOPLE were shaping the natural world even before white people arrived in what would become California. But European colonizers brought a new and disruptive chapter to that story... What is it with statements like this? They seem to imply that there was no war, no slavery, no genocide, etc before the Europeans arrived. The story of humans is one disruption and atrocity after the other. Pre-columbian america is no different than anywhere else in that regard.