Category talk:Native American genocide

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Indigenous peoples of North America

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This category seems to be a little.. gray? Seems like some of the articles in here are not clear acts of genocide. Some are. Unless something was clearly genocide, it probably shouldn't be in this category. The UN defines 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 harm 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; [and] forcibly transferring children of the group to another group."

In many of these articles, the intent was not to destroy or kill and entire group, but rather a side effect of an attempt to take land. That is to say, the goal was not always to kill the Indians, the goal was often to just take their land, and many died in the process. So that is not technically genocide. Ethnic cleansing, perhaps, but not genocide at least in the modern purposeful extermination sense of the word. —Charles Edward ^{(Talk | Contribs)} 19:22, 19 November 2010 (UTC)Reply

The United States is hardly the only part of the Americas touched by genocidal campaigns against Native Americans. Where are teh Araucanian Wars, the Caste Wars of the Yucatan, the Yaqui Wars, or the Guatemalan Civil War? 69.171.160.108 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 06:21, 28 November 2010 (UTC).Reply

Wikipedia will never allow anti-american literature, however true they could be. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.136.236.139 (talk) 19:16, 9 September 2017 (UTC)Reply

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