The arrival of Spanish colonizers in the mid-16th century set in motion a course of events that would devastate the lives of the hundreds of thousands of indigenous Californians. Under American rule three centuries later, it would culminate in systemic mass murder and an attempt to completely eradicate the native population. 

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