Early California: A Killing Field — Research Shatters Utopian Myth, Finds Indians Decimated Birds.

From a shorter version, with a somewhat “Minnesotan” headline:
Ancient hunters depleted stock too.

“The general public probably buys into the ‘Pocahontas version’ that Native Americans were inherently different and more in tune with nature,” said University of Utah archaeologist Jack Broughton. “The evidence says otherwise.”

Found at Explorator