Bienvinitas. That's California for welcome to the April 23rd edition of National Review's Radio Free California podcast.

I'm Will Swame, CEO of the California Policy Center. You can find my colleagues and me at California PolicyCenter.org. You can find my friend and co-host David Bonson right here. He's an overwhelmed economist, the host of the Capitol Record podcast, the author of full-time work in the meaning of life. And of course, he's founder of the eponymous investment firm, the Bonson Group. Hello, David, and I did not mean to insult you by saying overwhelmed.

You are never seeming overwhelmed.

I just know what your schedule is like.

Oh, yeah.

You know, it wouldn't have any other way.

You know what the opposite of being super busy is.

Dead?

Yeah.

So we're trying to avoid.

That's our new script that we're working on super dead. All right. So,

David, if you don't mind, I'm going to start. I know you don't. I'm going to start with just a

wee bit of history this day, April 23rd in 1873. Am I right about this? I believe I'm right about this.

We're in the middle of the Modoc War in California,

so let's flash back here just a moment. After the Civil War, U.S. Federal Indian Policy on the

Pacific Coast is moving toward this kind of progressive ideal. It's really, it reflects the rise of

progressive philosophy and science, quote unquote, especially in Germany, but it's forcing Native American

tribes people to consolidate among smaller linguistically related tribes on shared larger reservations.

And in this case, we get the Modoc people of Northern California, Siski-U County.

They're moved into Southern Oregon alongside

the Klamath and, pardon me for mispronouncing us almost certainly Yahuaskin peoples,

groups with related but distinct languages and territorial histories. You can imagine where this goes.

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