Colonial Genocide in Indigenous North America
Colonial Genocide in Indigenous North America This important collection of essays expands the geographic, demographic, and analytic scope of the term genocide to encompass the effects of colonialism…
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Colonial Genocide in Indigenous North America
This important collection of essays expands the geographic, demographic, and analytic scope of the term genocide to encompass the effects of colonialism and settler colonialism in North America. The contributors examine these efforts through the lens of genocide. Colonists made multiple and interconnected attempts to destroy Indigenous peoples as groups.
governments in attempts to "civilize" or "assimilate" Indigenous children. Considering some of the most destructive aspects of the colonization and subsequent settlement of North America, several essays address Indigenous boarding school systems imposed by both the Canadian and U.S. Contributors examine some of the most egregious assaults on Indigenous peoples and the natural environment, including massacres, land appropriation, the spread of disease, the near-extinction of the buffalo, and forced political restructuring of Indigenous