As American settlers pour in for the Gold Rush and California ascends to US statehood, government policy takes an even darker turn toward indigenous people, who are becoming seen less as a source of labor to exploit, and more as a nuisance it would be better to exterminate. Military units, militias, and scores of sadistic individuals will try to do just that, with full government backing. 

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