Genocide and denying it: Why we are not taught that the natives of the united states and canada were exterminated

[ljwheat]

Just a bump here to get this topic back among the living. Genocide and our nation that's silent about their embarrassment , they will not teach in our schools.

http://espressostalinist.com/genocide/native-american-genocide/ http://private.h-fangirl.com/writings/conestogoe.html

This is a Great Read and the majority of the present has no idea it happened, 114 million American Indians gone from the America's.

The American Indian Holocaust, known as the “500 year war” and the “World’s Longest Holocaust In The History Of Mankind And Loss Of Human Lives.”

[SabreToothMom]

It's funny, just last night before bed I was thinking about this subject. I won a scholarship by the Daughters of the American Revolution for my essay on the American Indian / Native American genocide. They teach about it in college, just not in elementary, middle, or high school in the USA.

I hope you don't mind.. I have edited this post to add my own introduction to my essay [keeping in mind it was written many many many years ago and perhaps is not worded as eloquently as I would like] which I think helps to illustrate the blatant obviousness of what we did to the natives here. You can replace "Conestogoe" with any tribe and it is still relevant in my opinion:

"The 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide set the definition of genocide as "any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental hard to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; forcibly transferring children of the group to another group" (Orentlicher 3).

Native Americans are a national group (they are the indigenous people of North America), an ethnical group (the Native Americans had their own distinctive heritages and culture, customs and languages), a racial group (nobody argues the fact that Native Americans are a race as different from "whites" as "blacks" are), and even a religious group, having religious rituals unique among their own tribes, worshiping their ancestors and many gods in most cases, distinctly different from any of the established major world religions.

Therefore, as long as any of the acts in the Convention's definition were executed with the explicit intent to destroy, in whole or in part, the Conestogoe Indians (also known as "Conestoga" for the town in which they lived, or "Susquehannock" or "Susquehanna" for the river they lived alongside), then the Conestogoes can be identified as victims of genocide at the hands of the Paxton Boys in their brutal attacks of Wednesday morning, December 14, 1763."

[if desired I will post the rest of the essay, which is fairly short, so that the obviousness is undeniable, but I do not want to throw this thread off-topic, since there is already a link provided to focus on.]

I find it impossible to see how anybody can deny this was genocide. *steps off soapbox*

[jake gittes]

Words cannot describe how disgustingly ghastly, shameful and despicable the actions of warring people on peaceful people throughout history that continues ad nauseam to this day. And it's always inspired by greed and executed by sadistic cowards who would never attempt such if not possessing an overwhelming advantage.

[wnlight]

I think you are preaching to the choir. I certainly agree whole heartedly with the above posts. But racial and religious genocide has been happening since before recorded history and is still continuing. Perhaps the practice will fade away when humans have evolved to a higher dimension. (No predictions here.)

[ljwheat]

I think you are preaching to the choir. I certainly agree whole heatedly with the above posts. But racial and religious genocide has been happening since before recorded history and is still continuing. Perhaps the practice will fade away when humans have evolved to a higher dimension. (No predictions here.)

May be on this site, but you talk or ask people you meat if they know about the 500 year war, and they have no clue.

[Ikarusion]

The American Indian Holocaust
no, no. you cant use that word. zionists have worked very hard to reserve it for their incident.

[East Sun]

Genocide should be faced head on and admitted to....imo