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WHOSE KNOWLEDGE?
Knowledge Gap What is missing?	Subject Area On which topic?	Expert Guided by who?	Useful References Addressed with which sources?
History of scholarship and narratives: Indians often referenced only through lens of the Missions, and in derogatory ways	Kumeyaay and California Indian History	Michael Connolly Miskwish
WP article on Kumeyaay, Language: Focus on different perspectives between linguists and native speakers. Native speakers don't see it as separate languages. Many linguists actually agree with Kumeyaay on that point.	Kumeyaay and California Indian History	Michael Connolly Miskwish
WP article on Kumeyaay, History: Before Contact - different people or different cultures? Bias comes in when perspective is portrayed as native opinions vs scientists studies. Nothing in the archaeological record says that new people moved in and wiped out others. Same people (maybe w/ intermarriage) w/ roots back to paleoIndians, with culture change over time.	Kumeyaay and California Indian History	Michael Connolly Miskwish
Environmental management, including fire management, harvest techniques, engineering	Kumeyaay and California Indian History	Michael Connolly Miskwish
Trade and commerce are often underreferenced. Obsidian mines, etc existed	Kumeyaay and California Indian History	Michael Connolly Miskwish
Politics of Paleo-identity: Scientists undermine scientific evidence that local people are descendents of paleo-Indians, to block repatriation. Scientific American took biased view	Kumeyaay and California Indian History	Michael Connolly Miskwish
History books often define California borders retroactively. As a geographic and ecological unit, there is continuity with Baja. Kumeyaay territory a great example of this.	Kumeyaay and California Indian History	Michael Connolly Miskwish
Spread of diseases: estimate at least 1m Indians here before missions came, and 300,000 after Missions started. Estimates of population decline in present CA prior to 1769 range from 600,000 to 1.2m. Spread of indigenous spiritual traditions to try to safeguard Indians from these diseases	Kumeyaay and California Indian History	Michael Connolly Miskwish
San Diego experience: difficulties of religious conversion, lack of environmental understanding, and 1779 destruction of the mission (these are some distinctions from other parts of CA)	Kumeyaay and California Indian History	Michael Connolly Miskwish
Conversions? 60 converts per year likely includes: People who didn't understand what it meant, Stockholm syndrome identification w/ opressors, and children born into the Mission system	Kumeyaay and California Indian History	Michael Connolly Miskwish
Population change 1600-1910 - add Mike's chart to Commons.	Kumeyaay and California Indian History	Michael Connolly Miskwish
Gold rush and gold production, slaughter of many indigenous peoples during this time. Genocide driven by greed for gold (as well as land and water, of course)	Kumeyaay and California Indian History	Michael Connolly Miskwish