HISTORY: California Genocide
This Is Monsters
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🗓️ 4 May 2026
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When settlers made their way west to California while exploring "the new world," it wasn't an uninhibited place ready to be colonized. No, indigenous tribes were already there and the newcomers didn't believe there was room for both of them.
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| 0:00.0 | The word home is an important word. It's usually used to describe the place we live in, |
| 0:05.7 | like our house or apartment, but it has a much broader meaning. Outside of your actual dwelling, |
| 0:11.4 | it can be the place you're most comfortable, the place where your community is and the place |
| 0:15.9 | where you feel like you belong. For people in the past, their home was a region of the world that they had grown |
| 0:21.9 | up in for generations and it was a place they felt they would always have. Sometimes, though, |
| 0:27.4 | we get pulled from our home, never to return. The colonization of the Americas remains a story that's often romanticized as being a great achievement in the pursuit of manifest destiny to this day. |
| 1:04.2 | But the truth of the matter is that in order to achieve that new world, a lot of blood had to be shed. |
| 1:10.4 | That's because, for those who were already |
| 1:12.2 | living there when the first European settlers arrived, it wasn't a new world at all. No, it was their |
| 1:18.3 | home. Unfortunately, though, it wouldn't be theirs for much longer, and in the process of being |
| 1:23.9 | displaced from it, thousands of them would be killed. The territory now known as |
| 1:28.9 | California was a far different place prior to the arrival of Spanish settlers in the mid-1700s. |
| 1:35.8 | At that point, it was a largely peaceful and prosperous region filled with a variety of different |
| 1:40.9 | indigenous tribes, with the total population reaching somewhere approaching |
| 1:45.2 | 300,000. |
| 1:47.2 | Because of that, it meant it was highly diverse and interconnected, with many of those tribes |
| 1:51.7 | speaking multiple languages and working together closely to create a strong economy of trade. |
| 1:57.6 | Of course, that would change in 1769 as it was then that both Catholic Spanish missionaries |
| 2:03.3 | and military forces led by Juaniparocera and Gaspar de Portola, respectively, first arrived |
| 2:09.6 | in the area and began attempting to convert the locals to their religion. |
| 2:14.1 | That meant using means such as baptism, something the indigenous people often had no understanding of. |
| 2:20.3 | Sadly, though, whether they understood it or not, it didn't change the fact that such a process |
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