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In the next 1 / 2 of the 19th century, the Euro-American citizenry of California carried out mass genocide contrary to the Native population with their status, using the processes and mechanisms of democracy to secure land and resources for themselves and their private interests. The murder, rape, and enslavement of thousands of Native individuals were legitimized by notions of democracy - in cases like this mob rule - via a discreetly sorted out and brutally effective series of petitions, referenda, town hall meetings, and votes at every degree of California government. Murder Condition is a thorough examination of these situations and their early legacy. Preconceptions about Local Americans as designed by the favorite press and by immigrants' encounters on the Overland Path to California were used to further justify the eradication of Native people in the beginners' search for land. The allegedly "violent mother nature" of Native people was often basically their a reaction to the atrocities determined against them as they were driven off their ancestral lands and alienated off their traditional resources. Murder Condition calls attention to the misuse of democracy to justify and commit genocide.
