Talk:San Leandro, California

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Oh, the writing on this page is SOOOO Eurocentric - if that's the right word, I'm trying to say it's written from a european/european-Amerrican viewpoint rather than an Indigineous Peoples/ Native American viewpoint. For example, The "History" section starts out "San Leandro was first discovered on March 20, 1772 by Spanish soldier..." but for anyone who has studied California, it's obvious that the whole bay area was "heavily populated", in terms of populations of Indiginous Peoples of the time, and going back several hundred if not thousands of years.

I guess it's a question of Wikipedia style, and perhaps I should be looking at Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style instead of shooting my virtual mouth off here... but as an (originally) American phenomenon, how does Wikipedia as an entity view the question of eurocentricity in articles such as this one? (Oh, so I did look, and it does not seem to be addressed... hmmm).

I'm not quite presumptuous enough to edit the page on my own to try to remove or even mitigate the eurocentric angle, but I find the topic interesting enough that I am jotting it down here... I'll "watch" this discussion page and see if anything comes of it.

Tzf 18:49, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

you are correct TZF. article could use more info on Native American settlement and use. i shall try to find something, but it may take some time. Newarknanny 18:46, 12 November 2006 (UTC)