I read the entire article, but almost didn't.

The city had been a barren seaside desert tufted with dune grass. Then, in the late 1700s, came the Misión de San Francisco de Asis — Mission Dolores — that house of pain where the Spaniards held their blood sports: goading bulls to gore chained grizzly bears and burying more than 5,000 Ohlone native people in unmarked graves.
The Sad Story of the Bear on California’s State Flag
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Lisa Lee Herrick
Joe Honton
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Sep 21, 2020
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I read the entire article, but almost didn't. This type of gratuitous remark distracts from the story you are telling.
It's also unclear. Why was it a house of pain? Did the grizzly bears bury more than 5,000 Ohlone native people in unmarked graves? Or was it the bulls? Or did the Spaniards hold blood sports using the Ohlone people?
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