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Compare and contrast the attitudes towards land and natural resources held by indigenous Californians, the Spanish, the Californios, and the United States.

This Fine Province For thousands of years, the indigenous people of California lived in what we today called the Golden State, developing distinctive communities and cultures. Then, between the years 1769 and 1850, California became a contested space. The Spanish Empire, the Californios, and the United States of America all sought to control California, as […]