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Question

1.Who were the "Digger Indians"?

2. Why do many people persist in seeing California's original peoples as the most primitive of North American Indians?

3. California's Indians are popularly viewed as static remains of ancient Stone-Age peoples. Why?

4. What distinguished California Indians from other North American natives?

5. California's large native population undermines the traditional view of European colonization. Why?

6. Why did the Indians expand industry and commerce beyond California's borders?

7. Why did the 'hunter-gatherer' cultures that Europeans first encountered in the 16^th century flourish?

8. What were "Shamans"?

9. California natives' manipulated nature through?

10. To native Californians, the close interaction to humanity and the environment was?

11. How did the Indians avoid straining their resources?

12. Generally, California families were divided into four classes. What were they?

13. Why wasn't male supremacy absolute?

14.At the Spanish missions, deeply ingraine d sex roles complicated the assimilation of natives. Why?.

15. Why were the arts segregated according to gender?