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CALIFORNIA EXPLORERS DATABASE | |
Number of Cards | 31 |
Card Description | One
card each on 30 individual explorers; 1 card on the first explorers |
The first explorers of
These Indians, the Native
Californians, made trails. Some were short, used for gathering food, for hunting,
or for visiting neighboring villages. Other trails were long. Historians believe
that the California Indians traded with others in what is now
When Europeans started
exploring by land in the west, they found Indians who could show them the way.
The trails they “opened” were not new trails, but paths known to Indians for
generations. Indians served as guides for most of the early explorations. When
Europeans tried to find their way in
All of the features of
The Native Californians
have not received the credit due them because they did not create written records
of their explorations and discoveries. It was easy for the early European explorers
to say they had “discovered” a river or a mountain or a valley, because they
had seen no record of it before. We now acknowledge that the Indians were the
first to discover, the first to see, the first to cross the rivers, valleys,
and mountains of