American Genocide

The atrocities committed against native people of North America has been thoroughly documented and continues to this day. Whitewashing the acts of settlers and the Governments has attempted to lessen the true story of theft and genocide which took place in what is now the United States and Canada. US Soldiers burying Native Americans in a mass grav... e. Execution of Dakota Sioux Indians in Mankato, Minnesota, 1862 The 1948 United Nations Convention on Genocide states: Genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: the U.S. government authorize(d) over 1,500 wars, attacks and raids on Indians, the most of any country in the world against its indigenous people. By the close of the Indian Wars in the late 19th century, fewer than 238,000 indigenous people remained, a sharp decline from the estimated 5 million to 15 million living in North America in 1492. The 1999 Encyclopedia of Genocide, by Ward Churchill, edited by scholar Israel Charny, argues that extermination was the"express objective" of the U.S. government. https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/7302 Californias first governor, Peter Burnett, declared to legislators in 1851 that a war of extermination will continue to be waged between the two races until the Indian race becomes extinct must be expected. The Legislature subsequently approved $1.29 million to subsidize militia campaigns against American Indians. https://apnews.com/982b507a846a4ad6bc184b3e7f99ec70 June 18, 2019 SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) Gov. Gavin Newsom formally apologized Tuesday and pushed the state to reckon with Californias dark history of violence, mistreatment and neglect of Native Americans, saying it amounted to genocide. Apache Bounties (bounties for scalps of men, women and children) 1831 (facilitated removal of native culture and land; legalized slavery of Natives, prohibited native testimony against settlers, sterilization of women, and the buying and selling of Native ...Read More