The holiday purports to mark friendship among indigenous peoples and pilgrims. But the first settlers and the US governments force removals theft of land, biological warfare with smallpox and massacres actually was genocide. The population of indigenous people went from 15 million to 15 million before Columbus's arrival to fewer than 238,000 over the course of 400 years. There are still 2,500 Tongva people in the region who do a lot around you to preserve their artifacts and heritage.

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