Denial of genocides of Indigenous peoples explained

Denial of genocides of Indigenous peoples consists of a claim that has denied any of the multiple genocides and atrocity crimes, which have been committed against Indigenous peoples. The denialism claim contradicts the academic consensus, which acknowledges that genocide was committed.[1] [2] The claim is a form of denialism, genocide denial, historical negationism and historical revisionism. The atrocity crimes include genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and ethnic cleansing.[3]

During European colonization, many empires have colonized territories inhabited by what would be known today as Indigenous peoples. Many new colonies have surviving Indigenous peoples within their new political borders, and in this process, atrocities have been committed against Indigenous nations. The atrocities against Indigenous peoples have related to forced displacement, exile, introduction of new diseases, forced containment in reservations, forced assimilation, forced labour, criminalization, dispossession, land theft, compulsory sterilization, forcibly transferring children of the group to another group, separating children from their families, enslavement, captivity, massacres, forced religious conversion, cultural genocide, and reduction of means of subsistence and subsequent starvation and disease.

Non-Indigenous scholars are now increasingly examining the impact of settler colonialism and internal colonialism from the perspective of Indigenous peoples.

Background

Defining genocide

In 1948, the Genocide Convention defined genocide as any of five "acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group". These five acts include killing members of the group, causing them serious bodily or mental harm, imposing living conditions intended to destroy the group, preventing births, and forcibly transferring children out of the group.[4] [5] Additional scholarly definitions have been used to examine the diverse history of genocide,[6] including those that include cultural and ethnic genocide as per Raphael Lemkin.[7]

Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky have argued that definitions of key terms, as well as the attention a society provides to a specific issue, such as genocide, is the product of mass media, as they mention in Manufacturing Consent: "A propaganda system will consistently portray people abused in enemy states as worthy victims, whereas those treated with equal or greater severity by its own government or clients will be unworthy".[8] Thus, Chomsky views the term genocide as one that is used by those in positions of political power and media prominence against their rivals, but people in positions of power will avoid using the term to describe their own actions, past and present.[9]

Bradley Campbell has proposed a theory of genocide as a function of minority status, social segregation, low population size, and lack of visibility. Further factors include marginalization, the lack of political representation, and lower economic or social status.[10]

In the latter part of the 20th century, the genocide of Indigenous peoples attracted more attention from the international community, including scholars and human rights organizations.[11]

Rationalization

American academic and activist Gregory Stanton has described ten stages of genocide, in which the ninth stage is extermination and the tenth is denial. During this final stage, Stanton argues that individuals and government may "deny that these crimes meet the definition of genocide", "question whether intent to destroy a group can be proven", and "often blame what happened on the victims".[12] The concept of denial as the final stage of genocide has been discussed in more detail in the 2021 textbook Denial: The Final Stage of Genocide?[13] Stanton also indicates that stages often co-occur; the first eight stages include classification, symbolization, discrimination, dehumanization, organization, polarization, preparation, and persecution. Early denial of genocide often occurred through these stages. For instance, American historian David Stannard explained that European colonizers "purposefully and systematically dehumaniz[ed] the people they were exterminating".[14]

Further, South African sociologist Leo Kuper has described denial as a routine defense, referring to it as a consequence of the Genocide Convention. He argues that denial has become more prevalent because genocide is considered "an international crime with potentially significant sanctions by way of punishment, claims for reparation, and restitution of territorial rights".[15]

Denial examples

According to Robert K. Hitchcock, editor of Modern Genocide, "the destruction of Indigenous peoples and their cultures has been a policy of many of the world's governments, although most government spokespersons argue that the disappearance or disruption of Indigenous societies was not purposeful but rather occurred inadvertently."[16] Despite this, in 2013, Colin Leach et al. found that perpetrator groups denied their group's responsibility, showed low levels of collective guilt, and had low support for reparation policies.[17]

North America

According to a survey conducted between 2016 and 2018, "36% of Americans almost certainly believe that the United States is guilty of committing genocide against Native Americans." Indigenous author Michelle A. Stanley writes that "Indigenous genocide is largely denied, erased, relegated to the distant past, or presented as inevitable". She writes that Indigenous genocide is depicted broadly, without touching on the pattern of a series of separate genocides against multiple distinct tribal nations. Seneca scholar Melissa Michal Slocum said that Native American genocide has been denied by the United States.[18] According to North American Genocides, edited by Clarke et al., many American scholars deny Indigenous genocide in the Americas, despite agreement from international scholars that it occurred. American historian Ned Blackhawk said that nationalist historiographies have been forms of denial that erase the history of destruction of European colonial expansion. Blackhawk said that near consensus has emerged that genocide against some Indigenous peoples took place in North America following colonization.[19]

Some historians do not consider that genocide of Indigenous peoples took place in North America, including James Axtell, Robert Utley, William Rubinstein, Guenter Lewy and Gary Anderson, although some call the atrocities another name such as ethnic cleansing.[20] Other scholars, including Elazar Barkan and Walter L. Hixson agree with the sentiment that those in the Americas deny the genocide of the regions' Indigenous populations.[21] [22]

On the Columbus Quincentenary, American historian David Stannard highlighted the numerous celebrations and festivities surrounding Columbus alongside "American and European denials of culpability for the most thoroughgoing genocide in the history of the world have assumed a new guise."[23] A similar issue arose when Lynne Cheney, then chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities, rejected a television project celebrating the anniversary, highlighted the proposal's use of the word "genocide". Cheney stated, "We might be interested in funding a film that debated that issue, but we are not about to fund a film that asserts it. Columbus was guilty of many sins, but he was not Hitler."[24]

This particular issue, the comparison to The Holocaust, has been raised by others, as well, with American historian David Stannard pointing to The Holocaust's prominent position in the public eye compared to the global ignorance of atrocities in the Americas.[25] Howard Zinn,[26] Susan Cameron,[27] and Kirsten Dyck[28] have claimed that in American history textbooks, America's history of abuse against Indigenous peoples is mostly ignored or presented from the state's point of view.

In The Other Slavery, American historian Andrés Reséndez compares the thousands of books written about the slavery of Africans to the couple dozen books about Indigenous slavery and argues that the latter has "almost completely erased from our historical memory". He argues that African slavery is more widely accepted because it was legalized and therefore recorded, whereas Indigenous slavery was largely illegal; further, because African slaves needed to be transported, settlers kept record of ship manifests.[29]

Canadian political scientist Adam Jones has said that the historical revisionism has been so thorough that in some cases, the Americas have been depicted as unpopulated before European colonization.[30]

Other claims against the genocide of Indigenous people of the Americas deal with the natural superiority of the European colonizers. For instance, Stannard has argued that British journalist Christopher Hitchens's 1992 essay, "Minority Report", supported social Darwinism.[31]

California

Robert K. Hitchcock says that during the California genocide, "California state legislators, administrators, Indian agents, and townspeople denied that a genocide was happening."

Continuing into the 21st century, Benjamin Madley has stated that the California genocide has "too often concealed, denied, or suppressed".[32] This can be evidenced via social science and history textbooks approved by the California Department of Education that ignore the history of this genocide.[33] [34] [35]

In 2015, English writer and political activist George Monbiot argued that when the Catholic Church canonized 18th-century Christian missionary Junípero Serra, who "founded the system of labour camps that expedited California's cultural genocide", they were, in effect, denying the genocide.[36] [37]

Canada

Canada has received many criticisms regarding its denial of participation in Indigenous genocide, particularly in relation to the Canadian Indian residential school system, and the long-term effects of both residential schooling and colonization more generally.[38]

The Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) received criticism upon its opening in 2014 because it did not use the term genocide to describe the history of colonialism in Canada.[39] Two years after its opening, Rita K. Dhamoon critiqued the museum's focus on the Holocaust, frame of residential schools as assimilationist and not genocidal, and denial of the genocidal nature of settler colonialism.[40] In 2019, the museum reversed its policy and officially recognizes genocide of Indigenous peoples in Canada in its content.[41]

In 2021, Senator Lynn Beyak generated controversy and was accused of genocide denial in the Canadian Indian residential school system after she voiced disapproval of the final Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada report, saying that it had omitted the positives of the schools.[42] [43] [44] Similarly, former Conservative Party leader Erin O'Toole said that the residential school system educated Indigenous children,[45] but then changed his view: "The system was intended to remove children from the influence of their homes, families, traditions, and cultures". Former newspaper publisher Conrad Black and others have also been accused of denial.

In 2022, Gregory Stanton, former president of International Association of Genocide Scholars, issued a report of Canada's genocide saying it is in denial.[46] On National Truth and Reconciliation Day in 2023, Trudeau said that denialism was on the rise.[47]

Response

In 2015, Supreme Court Chief Justice Beverly McLachlin said that Canada's historical treatment of Indigenous peoples was cultural genocide.[48] In 2021, Canadian political scientist David Bruce MacDonald argued that the Canadian government should recognize various atrocities committed against the Indigenous peoples in Canada.[49] Later the same month, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau apologized in the context of the 2021 Canadian Indian residential schools gravesite discoveries.[50] [51] [52]

In 2022, the Canadian government announced that it would pay C$31.5 billion to reform the foster care system and compensate Indigenous families for its deficiencies.[53] The government has acknowledged the overrepresentation of Indigenous children in the foster care system.[54]

In 2023, politician Leah Gazan has stated that she wants to criminalize the denial of genocide in residential schools.[55] Scouts Canada also issued an apology for "its role in the eradication of First Nation, Inuit and Metis people for more than a century".[56]

South America

According to Nadia Rubaii, the mass atrocities in Latin America have been less visible internationally for three reasons:[57]

  1. Victim groups have frequently been attacked for their ideological or political differences, leading the international community to consider such atrocities as domestic political issues.
  2. Perpetrators who damage ecosystems and means of subsistence argue that they are seeking economic development for common benefit and deny the intention to inflict any harm.
  3. If there is academic attention to the topic, it is documented in Spanish not in English.

Argentina

In Argentina, the Conquest of the Desert had been interpreted in war terms, silencing the fact of Indigenous genocide.[58] [59] In the case of the Napalmi massacre, a judge concluded that the massacre took place in a context of genocide.[60] [61] According to Walter Delrio et al. in 2010, "The state still denies the existence of genocide and the existence of crimes against humanity with respect to Indigenous peoples."[62]

Paraguay and Brazil

See also: Genocide of Indigenous peoples in Brazil and Genocide of Indigenous peoples in Paraguay. South African sociologist and genocide scholar Leo Kuper says that genocide has been denied in Paraguay and Brazil on the basis of alleged lack of intent to destroy.[63] For instance, the case of the Ache in Paraguay has been legally determined to be a case of political persecution.[64]

Central America

In Guatemala, debate has occurred over accusations of genocide. The Guatemalan Truth Commission has reported genocide during the 35 year civil war,[65] [66] but some Guatemalan politicians have referred to the conflict as a civil war.[67] [68] [69]

Africa

The Herero genocide is described as the first genocide of the 20th century.[70] [71] In 2012, German politician Uwe Kekeritz said Germany needed to move away from "a culture of denial".[72]

Australia

The Indigenous Australian population experienced the Australian frontier wars, in which there was conflict over territory. Massacres and mass poisonings have also been carried out against Indigenous people.[73]

According to Hannah Baldry, "The Australian Government appears to have long suffered a form of 'denialism' that has consistently deprived the country's Aboriginal population of acknowledgment of the crimes perpetrated against their ancestors."[74] This includes ongoing debates about the interpretation of history, including calling Australia's national myth as an invasion or settlement.

Former Prime Minister John Howard refused to apologize in the Motion of Reconciliation, claiming that the program had no genocidal intent. Former Tasmanian Premier Ray Groom said that "there had been no killing in the island state".The Australian literary and cultural journal Quadrant has been considered "a key locus of genocide denial". They included common arguments regarding the definitional status of genocide, including the idea "that 'half castes' could not claim Aboriginal status since they were half-European" and that Indigenous people were to blame for their fate due to "their own backwardness"; other articles argued that "frontier massacres were based on misinterpreted statistics and falsehoods".[75]

Reactions

A number of states have chosen to take a firm stance against the denial of genocide by enacting laws to criminalize it. The extent of legal coverage varies from one state to another.[76]

See also

External links

Further reading

Notes and References

  1. Book: Hitchcock, Robert K. . Denial of genocides in the twenty-first century . 2023 . University of Nebraska Press . 978-1-4962-3554-1 . Der Matossian . Bedross . Lincoln . Denial of Genocide of Indigenous People in the United States . Genocide scholars Susan Chavez Cameron and Loan T. Phan see American Indians as having gone through the ten stages of genocide identified by Stanton. Failure to acknowledge genocide has harmful social and psychological impacts on the victims of genocide, and it leaves the perpetrators in positions of power vis-a-vis others in their societies. As Agnieszka Bienczyk-Missala points out, denial or negation relating to mass crimes consists of denying scientifically proven historical facts by deliberately concealing them and spreading false and misleading information. She goes on to say that the consequences of negationism are of ethical, legal, social, and political character..
  2. Book: Colonial Genocide in Indigenous North America . 2014 . Duke University Press . j.ctv11sn770 . 978-0-8223-5763-6 . Woolford . Andrew . "From Lemarchand's volume, it is clear that what is remembered and what is not remembered is a political choice, producing a dominant narrative that reflects the victor's version of history while silencing dissenting voices. Building on a critical genocide studies approach, this volume seeks to contribute to this conversation by critically examining cases of genocide that have been "hidden" politically, socially, culturally, or historically in accordance with broader systems of political and social power". (p2) ...the U.S. government, for most of its existence, stated openly and frequently that its policy was to destroy Native American ways of life through forced integration, forced removal, and death. An 1881 report of the U.S. commissioner of Indian Affairs on the "Indian question" is indicative of the decades- long policy: "There is no one who has been a close observer of Indian history and the effect of contact of Indians with civilization who is not well satisfied that one of two things must eventually take place, to wit, either civilization or extermination of the Indian. Savage and civilized life cannot live and prosper on the same ground. One of the two must die." (p3) "As such it is important for the peoples of the United States and Canada to recognize their shared legacies of genocide, which have too often been hidden, ignored, forgotten, or outright denied." (p3) "After all, much of North America was swindled from Indigenous peoples through the mythical but still powerful Doctrine of Discovery, the perceived right of conquest, and deceitful treaties. Restitution for colonial genocide would thus entail returning stolen territories". (p9) "Thankfully a new generation of genocide scholarship is moving beyond these timeworn and irreconcilable divisions." (p11)"Variations of the Modoc ordeal occurred elsewhere during the conquest and colonization of Africa, Asia, Australia, and North and South America. Indigenous civilizations repeatedly resisted invaders seeking to physically annihilate them in whole or in part. Many of these catastrophes are known as wars. Yet by carefully examining the intentions and actions of colonizers and their advocates it is possible to reinterpret some of these cataclysms as both genocides and wars of resistance. The Modoc case is one of them" (p120). "Memory, remembering, forgetting, and denial are inseparable and critical junctures in the study and examination of genocide. Absence or suppression of memories is not merely a lack of acknowledgment of individual or collective experiences but can also be considered denial of a genocidal crime (p150). Erasure of historical memory and modification of historical narrative influence the perception of genocide. If it is possible to avoid conceptually blocking colonial genocides for a moment, we can consider denial in a colonial context. Perpetrators initiate and perpetuate denial" (p160). . Benvenuto . Jeff . Hinton . Alexander Laban . 24 December 2023 . 17 March 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230317131749/https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv11sn770 . live . Fontaine . Theodore . 10.2307/j.ctv11sn770 .
  3. Book: Evans, Gareth . The Responsibility to Protect: Ending Mass Atrocity Crimes Once and For All . 2008 . Brookings Institution Press . 978-0-8157-2504-6 . 11–13 . 10.7864/j.ctt4cg7fp .
  4. Web site: Genocide Background . United Nations Office on Genocide Prevention and the Responsibility to Protect . 17 April 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230417034403/https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/genocide.shtml . live .
  5. News: White . Richard . 17 August 2016 . Naming America's Own Genocide . en-US . live . 2023-03-29 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230115235807/https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/naming-americas-own-genocide/ . 15 January 2023 . In defining genocide, Madley relies on the criteria of the United Nations Genocide Convention, which has served as the basis for the genocide trials of defendants from Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia and has been employed at the International Criminal Court in The Hague..
  6. Book: Charny, Israel W. . Genocide: Conceptual and Historical Dimensions . February 1997 . University of Pennsylvania Press . 1997 . 978-0-8122-1616-5 . Andreopoulos . George J. . 74–76 . en . Toward a Generic Definition of Genocide . Charny offeres a definition of colonial genocide: "Genocide that is undertaken or even allowed in the course of or incidental to the purposes of achieving a goal of colonization or development of a territory belonging to an indigenous people, or any other consolidation of political or economic power through mass killing of those perceived to be standing in the way." . https://books.google.com/books?id=e5I34DePIxYC&pg=PA64.
  7. 2023-09-26. 2019-06-17. 10.18601/16578651.n25.03. 2346-2159. es. 25. 29–54. Opera. Pueblos indígenas como víctimas de los genocidios pasados y actuales. 197689643. free. 26 September 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230926082645/https://revistas.uexternado.edu.co/index.php/opera/article/view/6016. live.
  8. Book: Herman . Edward S. . Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media . Chomsky . Noam . 1988 . Pantheon Books . 978-0-394-54926-2 . 37 .
  9. Jones . Adam . 7 May 2020 . Chomsky and Genocide . Genocide Studies and Prevention. 14 . 1 . 76–104 . 10.5038/1911-9933.14.1.1738 . 218959996 . free .
  10. Campbell . Bradley . June 2009 . Genocide as Social Control . live . Sociological Theory . en . 27 . 2 . 150–172 . 10.1111/j.1467-9558.2009.01341.x . 0735-2751 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221212122947/https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9558.2009.01341.x . 12 December 2022 . 24 December 2023 . [G]enocide varies directly with immobility, cultural distance, relational distance, functional independence, and inequality; and it is greater in a downward direction than in an upward or lateral direction. This theory of genocide can be applied to numerous genocides throughout history, and it is capable of ordering much of the known variation in genocide - such as when and where it occurs, how severe it is, and who participates..
  11. Book: Jones . Adam . Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction . 2010 . Routledge . 978-1-136-93797-2 . 224.
  12. Web site: Stanton . Gregory . 2020 . The Ten Stages of Genocide . dead . https://archive.today/20200514224350/https://www.genocidewatch.com/ten-stages-of-genocide . 14 May 2020 . Genocide Watch .
  13. Book: Denial: The Final Stage of Genocide? . 2021-09-22 . Routledge . 978-1-003-01070-8 . John Cox . Amal Khoury . Sarah Minslow . London . 10.4324/9781003010708 . 238785913 . 22 December 2023 . 22 December 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231222192416/https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781003010708/denial-final-stage-genocide-john-cox-amal-khoury-sarah-minslow . live .
  14. Book: Stannard, David E. . American Holocaust: the conquest of the New World . 1993 . New York: Oxford University Press . Internet Archive . 978-0-19-508557-0 . 218 . If the assertions of Ortiz and others regarding the habits of the Indians were fabrications, they were not fabrications without design. From the Spaniards' enumerations of what they claimed were the disgusting food customs of the Indians (including cannibalism, but also the consumption of insects and other items regarded as unfit for human diets) to the Indians' supposed nakedness and absence of agriculture, their sexual deviance and licentiousness, their brutish ignorance, their lack of advanced weaponry and iron, and their irremediable idolatry, the conquering Europeans were purposefully and systematically dehumanizing the people they were exterminating..
  15. Kuper . Leo . 1991 . When Denial Becomes Routine . Social Education . 55 . 2 . 121–23 . 425009321 . .
  16. Book: Hitchcock, Robert . Modern Genocide: The Definitive Resource and Document Collection [4 volumes]

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    . ABC-CLIO . 2014 . 978-1-61069-364-6 . Bartrop . Paul R. . 4239–4246 . en . Indigenous Populations . Jacobs . Steven Leonard . 19 April 2023 . 16 March 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230316173755/https://books.google.com/books?id=JB4UBgAAQBAJ . live .
  17. Leach . Colin Wayne . Zeineddine . Fouad Bou . Čehajić - Clancy . Sabina . March 2013 . Moral Immemorial: The Rarity of Self-Criticism for Previous Generations' Genocide or Mass Violence . Journal of Social Issues . 69 . 1 . 34–53 . 10.1111/josi.12002 . free .
  18. Slocum . Melissa Michal . 2018-12-30 . INTRODUCTION: There Is No Question of American Indian Genocide . Transmotion . en . 4 . 2 . 1–30 . 10.22024/UniKent/03/tm.651 . 2059-0911.
  19. Blackhawk, Ned; Kiernan, Ben; Madley, Benjamin; Taylor, Rebe, eds. (2023). Genocide in the Indigenous, Early Modern and Imperial Worlds, from c.1535 to World War One. Pp 38,44. The Cambridge World History of Genocide. Vol. II. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-108-48643-9.
  20. Book: Hitchcock, Robert K. . Denial of genocides in the twenty-first century . 2023 . University of Nebraska Press . 978-1-4962-3554-1 . Der Matossian . Bedross . [Lincoln] . 33, 35, 36, 43, 44, 46, 47 . Denial of Genocide of Indigenous People in the United States . 1374189062 . Genocide scholars Susan Chavez Cameron and Loan T. Phan see American Indians as having gone through the ten stages of genocide identified by Stanton. Failure to acknowledge genocide has harmful social and psychological impacts on the victims of genocide, and it leaves the perpetrators in positions of power vis-a-vis others in their societies. As Agnieszka Bienczyk-Missala points out, denial or negation relating to mass crimes consists of denying scientifically proven historical facts by deliberately concealing them and spreading false and misleading information. She goes on to say that the consequences of negationism are of ethical, legal, social, and political character..
  21. Book: Barkan, Elazar . The specter of genocide : mass murder in historical perspective . 2003 . New York : Cambridge University Press . Internet Archive . 978-0-521-82063-9 . Gellately . Robert . 131, 138–139 . Chapter 6. Genocides of Indigenous Peoples . The United States had its own long-standing boarding schools for Native American children with a similar extent of abuse. However, the term Education for Extinction is yet to capture public attention as a human rights issue. The American indigenous dilemma is far less central to U.S. mainstream politics than in any of the other ex-British colonies. The notion of genocide, while warranted as much or more than in those other countries, is still confined to radical writers. It is intriguing, indeed, that no mainstream American historians have written about the fate of the Native Americans as genocide. (p131) Thus, the European guilt was at least a collective myopia, a deep failure to acknowledge the equality of indigenous people and the vast number and varied array of atrocities and genocides inflicted upon them. More likely this has been a willful denial of responsibility and guilt, hiding behind the structural explanation of biological agents. It is time to reverse course and acknowledge the responsibility and extent of the destruction purposefully inflicted by colonialism, although not upon all indigenous peoples, and not in similar fashion. (p138-139) . Kiernan . Ben.
  22. Book: Hixson, Walter L. . American Settler Colonialism: A History . 2013-12-05 . Springer . 978-1-137-37426-4 . 1st . New York . 8, 11, 12, 62 . en . Historical distortion and denial are endemic to settler colonies. In order for the settler colony to establish a collective usable past, legitimating stories must be created and persistently affirmed as a means of naturalizing a new historical narrative. A national mythology displaces the indigenous past...Becoming the indigene required not only cleansing of the land, either through killing or removing, but sanitizing the historical record as well. . 2 December 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231222192410/https://books.google.com/books?id=tiKuAgAAQBAJ . 22 December 2023 . live.
  23. Stannard . David E. . 1992 . Genocide in the Americas . The Nation . 255 . 12 . 430–434.
  24. News: Gamarekian . Barbara . 10 April 1991 . Grants Rejected; Scholars Grumble . The New York Times . live . 30 March 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230330072652/https://www.nytimes.com/1991/04/10/news/grants-rejected-scholars-grumble.html . 30 March 2023.
  25. Book: Stannard, David . Is the Holocaust Unique?: Perspectives on Comparative Genocide . 2009 . . 978-0-8133-3686-2 . Rosenbaum . Alan S . Abingdon, England . 330–331 . 10.4324/9780429495137 . The willful maintenance of public ignorance regarding the genocidal and racist horrors against indigenous peoples that have been and are being perpetrated by many nations of the Western Hemisphere, including the United States—which contributes to the construction of a museum to commemorate genocide only if the killing occurred half a world away—is consciously aided and abetted and legitimized by the actions of the Jewish uniqueness advocates we have been discussing....and so all people of conscience must be on guard against Holocaust deniers who, in many cases, would like nothing better than to see mass violence against Jews start again. By that same token, however, as we consider the terrible history and the ongoing campaigns of genocide against the indigenous inhabitants of the Western Hemisphere... . Charny . Israel W.
  26. Book: Zinn, Howard . A People's History of the United States . 2005 . HarperPerennial Modern Classics . Internet Archive . 978-0-06-083865-2 . From first grade to graduate school, I was given no inkling that the landing of Christopher Columbus in the New World initiated a genocide, in which the indigenous population of Hispaniola was annihilated. Or that this was just the first stage of what was presented as a benign expansion of the new nation (Louisiana "Purchase," Florida "Purchase," Mexican "Cession"), but which involved the violent expulsion of Indians, accompanied by unspeakable atrocities, from every square mile of the continent, until there was nothing to do with them but herd them into reservations. (Afterword).
  27. Cameron . Susan Chavez . Phan . Loan T. . 2018 . Ten stages of American Indian genocide . live . Revista Interamericana de Psicología . 52 . 1 . 28 . 10.30849/rip/ijp.v52i1.876 . 31 January 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221129074504/https://journal.sipsych.org/index.php/IJP/article/view/876 . 29 November 2022 . 28 March 2023.
  28. Dyck, Kirsten. (2016) Confronting genocide denial in US history textbooks. In History Can Bite : History Education in Divided and Postwar Societies. Denise Bentrovato / Karina V. Korostelina / Martina Schulze (eds.) pp 201. V&R unipres. "Minimizing the violence of the European conquest, as some of these textbook authors do, is simply genocide denial."
  29. Book: Reséndez, Andrés . The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America . HarperCollins . 2016 . 978-0-544-60267-0 . 12, 16, 262 . en . 9 July 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231222192410/https://books.google.com/books?id=Z2gpCgAAQBAJ . 22 December 2023 . live.
  30. Book: Jones, Adam . Crimes Against Humanity: a Beginner's Guide . Oneworld . 2008 . 9781851686018 . Oxford . 33 . EN . Through a devastating combination of genocidal massacre, disease, malnutrition, and slave labor, perhaps ninety-five percent of the indigenous population of the Americas was wiped out following the arrival of Spanish, Portuguese, British, French, Danish, Dutch, and Russian forces. In some places, such as Hispaniola (present-day Haiti and the Dominican Republic), the obliteration of the native population – partly purposive, partly unexpected via infectious disease – was nearly total. The killing was rationalized by myths of civilizational superiority and the inevitability of indigenous peoples' disappearance. Sometimes the historical revisionism was so radical as to depict colonized territories as virgin lands, effectively free of indigenous populations at the time of Western 'discovery'..
  31. Book: Stannard, David . Is the Holocaust Unique?: Perspectives on Comparative Genocide . 2009 . . 978-0-8133-3686-2 . Rosenbaum . Alan S . Abingdon, England . 298 . 10.4324/9780429495137 . To Hitchens, anyone who refused to join him in celebrating with "great vim and gusto" the annihilation of the native peoples of the Americas was (in his words) self-hating, ridiculous, ignorant, and sinister. People who regard critically the genocide that was carried out in America's past, Hitchens continued, are simply reactionary since such grossly inhuman atrocities "happen to be the way history is made". And thus "to complain about them is as empty as complaint about climatic, geological or tectonic shift". Moreover, he added, such violence is worth glorifying since it more often than not has been for the long-term betterment of humankind, as in the United States today, where the extermination of the Native Americans has brought about "a nearly boundless epoch of opportunity and innovation". . Charny . Israel W.
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