Native Genocide Evidence Buried

That was a rather short piece. What evidence is there that any attempted genocide was successful? Can we have facts, such as: what native groups were affected and how many in those groups? Were their cultures eradicated, or were certain individuals from those cultures influenced? Genocide is a very strong word.

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The midget, Bush, and that Rumsfield deserve only to be beaten with shoes by freedom loving people everywhere.

- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, The Iraqi Informat

Perturbed: I do find it odd that you question many things that Ottawa do but will trust them on issues that perhaps you and the majority of Canadians would much rather forget. A few countries certainly agreed with you on these strong genocide words and were able to get this removed from the definition of genocide:<br />
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Secretariat Draft<br />
First Draft of the Genocide Convention,<br />
Prepared by the UN Secretariat, 1947 [UN Doc. E/447]<br />
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3. [Cultural genocide] Destroying the specific characteristics of the group by: <br />
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(a) forcible transfer of children to another human group; or<br />
(b) forced and systematic exile of individuals representing the culture of a group; or<br />
(c) prohibition of the use of the national language even in private intercourse; or<br />
(d) systematic destruction of books printed in the national language or of religious works or prohibition of new publications; or<br />
(e) systematic destruction of historical or religious monuments or their diversion to alien uses, destruction or dispersion of documents and objects of historical, artistic, or religious value and of objects used in religious worship. <br />
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Marcarc has pointed out a few times that people need to look outside of their comfort zones on First Nations issues, for instance. <br />
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See as a starting point <a href="http://hiddenfromhistory.org">http://hiddenfromhistory.org</a> there is a whole series of lecture on this<br />
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What irritates me the most on this is that we are letting the perpetrators of the cover up get away with it. That it a real shame and part of the Black Book script repeating itself.<p>---<br>"We are all in this together somehow, some more than others somehow"

The best bet is to simply pick up an encyclopedia of native languages, these are rapidly dying out at a rate that would have Quebec instigating draconian measures of preservation if it were happening to french.

The one thing that is often missing from this dialogue is the very relevant point that there is no "First nations", meaning that there is no one 'group' called 'indians'. When Yugoslavs were killing one group within the state walls we still had no trouble calling it genocide and acting accordingly within Nato. However, most individual 'bands' represent an entire 'nation' and have treaties that attest to that far better than 'serbs' or 'croats'.

An easy way of looking at it is also just to look at a map, typically in most areas there are a considered number of indian nation names used to designate streets or even towns. Where I lived there was an "Assiniboine Avenue" even though an assiniboine never came within a thousand miles of the place. In New Brunswick natives from one side of the St.John river have difficulty understanding those on the other side because they are a different nation and use a different language. So when one 'tribe' is wiped out, as it frequently was, that is effectively genocide in the extreme.

So one residential school could very well be responsible for the genocide of ten nations, and frequently was if you go back and read on it. Perhaps people may think their too busy to study the cultures we are busy eradicating, and that genocide in their own democracy is something that history will forget. That sounds a bit preachy, it's also for my own benefit since I don't know nearly as much about it as I should and I'm writing out of my 'collective guilt'. I think I'll go change that right now...

One more thing I forgot to mention, although it doesn't have to do with this article. We have to remember times were quite different, Germany and the Jews were not an isolated case. The eugenics movement was alive and quite well in Canada and is definitely worth some reading. There's a certain sector of the world, that could very well be called it's own culture that was, and still is, genocidally mistreated. A little study on the government's eugenics program will open your eyes considerably that the attempted genocide of natives is not so farfetched. It still continues today, albeit in a political-economic way (our government doesn't 'force' kids from their parents, they simply create the environment where they WANT or HAVE to leave)

Yes!Then the government cries about "Ethnic" problems in other countries,but conveniently forgets it`s own backyard .

<p> <i>What goes around, comes around.</i> <p> It will be very interesting to watch Canadians fight for their sovereignty in the next few years and how they react when it's their turn to be the "dying breed."<p> Sans rancune ? Not quite. <p>---<br>« Il y a une belle, une terrible rationalité dans la décision d'être libre. » - Gérard Bergeron <br />

Once again, Gaulois, you present the Native situation as it really is. I applaud you. Right now, in South Dakota, in just one city, Native Americans are being charged with felony crimes, most of them innocent as Arlo Looking Cloud was, and are being sent off at a rate of 2 or 3 a month. As the noted Barry Bachrach has said, "White society is now eliminating Native Americans using the criminal justice system. Isn't that great?!!!" Official criminal misconduct is rampant, which includes judges from both Courts, Tribal and Federal. You have had a first hand example in the "private citizen" persona of Ms. Lisa Cook as exhibit A and as judge, exhibit B when she used the names of honorable Head Men to justify the shennigans of Bob and Kamook.

"In the two decades of contemplating what happened to me, I have come to recognize that a forgiving and forgetting induced by social pressure is immoral...What happened, happened. But that it happened cannot be so easily accepted. I rebel against my past, against history and against a present that places the incomprehensible in the cold storage of history and thus falsifies it in a revolting way." Jean Amery, At the Mind's Limit.

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