OAKLAND, Calif. - A historically accurate mural about the Ohlone Native Americans' brutal annihilation by Spanish missionaries which has graced the corner of 41st Street and Piedmont Avenue for 20 years is slated to be painted over by property management, allegedly because someone got offended by its portrayal of nudity.

Again.

Entitled "The Capture of the Solid, Escape of the Soul," the mural depicts the history of the Bay Area's gold miners and cowboys, fused with modern society and other themes. The work painted by Rocky Rische-Baird depicts Ohlone natives being given small-pox infected blankets and clothing, which the artist said the Ohlone did not wear before western influence.

Flanked on either side of the mural are two black and white images of a screaming Mother Nature, a nod

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