I guess I should have said "yes," but I didn't respond to the poll because I felt a yes or no answer would not be quite true. There were, in this hemishpere several thousand groups of people that had their own language and culture, After colonization these all got lumped together as "American Indians" Many of these groups were totally wiped out, either deliberately or accidentally. Technically, if a group of people with a unique language and culture are threatened with extinction simply because they exist, or they threaten someone's greed or political ambition, that is genocide. Genocide must have occurred many times in America, including the United States. But was it ever the policy of an American government to wipe out an Indian nation by violence. I don't think so. True there were many policies that would have had, as one consequence, the destruction of peoples and cultures. And these consequences could have been foreseen. Is that genocide? I'm not sure.
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