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My attempts at Japanese colonization of the Americas thwarted I find myself turning back to my "Land of Salmon and Totems" TL which I still enjoy. Thus I've decided to update it again but before I do several thoughts have come to me.

For one, I have been too conservative in my portyal of California and how it would have been affected by the rise of an native civilization in Oregon to the north. So, just as LOST focuses on the Kal'llan and the region I would like this to focus on developments in California.

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Excerpt from "California: Golden History" by Professor Juan Carlos Hierro. Madrid University Publications. Madrid. 1950.

I write this chapter, on the history of the Californians, at a time when Spain is celebrating its glorious history and achievements. For we in the name of God and Son carried ourselves across the seas with sword, faith, and word to enlighten many people on every continent on Earth. I bring this up because as many of the anscestors of the modern Californians were as such enlightened by Spanish people, we were not the first to do so.

"Rocosica" "Drake Land" "Slavarossi"

Onallan as it is known by the Kal'llan and Mal'llan or the Llanians by American accounts. Named after the Kal'llan mother goddess the valley homeland of the Kal'llan civilization was very comparable to the ancient Aztecs and Inca and other peoples who achieved rudimentary civilization in the Americas. From their valley came the Water Potato, language, textiles, tools, weapons and so much more which spread and educated the tribes of California.

As such the Californian natives looked up toward their northern neighbor with a reverent or maternal instinct. Proclaiming Onallan to be the source of all good things even today they follow the lead of the natives of Onallan in many respects. While far from docile the early Californian mind was filled with the offerings of Onallan, completed with Spanish education at last.

Scholars of Californian-Kal'llan relations scoff at evidence of conflict between the two peoples. It can be attributed that several times in Californian history Northern California fell to Kal'llan warlords who did wonders to advance Californian civilization by leaps and bounds. If the Kal'llan had ever managed to unite those early Californians into one power than the Kal'llan Empire may have been the China of the American continent. Fortunately, this was never to be for the population of California has always dwarfed that of the Kal'llan.

Especially with the introduction of the Kal'llan Totem, the water Potato...
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