The California Natives were also sometimes contemptuously referred to as "Diggers", for their practice of digging up roots to eat. The missions created new communities where the Native Americans received religious education and instruction. The New Children's Museum Downtown San Diego's New Children's Museum encourages children to think, play and create with innovative, hands-on art opportunities, classes and first-rate exhibitions designed by emerging and established contemporary artists. Jeffrey Ostler, too, endorsed the usage of the term, writing that it "rests on a substantial body of scholarship". In California, miners, ranchers, farmers, and businessmen engaged in acts outlined in the Genocide Convention.
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