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The treatment of Native Americans amounts to genocide - Coggle Diagram
The treatment of Native Americans amounts to genocide
Modern understanding
Common acknowledgement, "horror is diffused"
Impacts still felt today by affected Native Americans
Economic inequality
Mass incarceration
Higher rates of disease
Genocide actively erased from schools
The solution is reconciliation
Decolonization
Repatriation of all of the stolen land
Repairing ecological damage
U.S. government hasn't done much to reconciliate this all
Fed never formally declared it a 'genocide'
Gavin Newsom acknowledges genocide, apologized (I guess)
Order N-15-19, "Native history", not Californian history?
ISN'T land acknowledgements
"an alibi for doing the hard work"
Take notes, UCSC!
Justifications
Manifest destiny
Capitalist resource extraction
American exceptionalism
"Make America Great Again"
White supremacy
Genocide (?)
Forcefully done
"people do not hand over their land...without a fight"
Denial
Most died of disease
Reinforces ideas of biological inferiority
Disavowal
"rejection of some perception of reality because, if accepted as real, that perception would threaten the integrity of an existing worldview"
Difficult to prove exact attributes of genocide
Intentionality
90% of Native Americans dead
Countless purposeful murders and massacres
Stolen land
Ecological damage
Devastating river pollution
Animals being hunted to extinction
Native Americans highly value land, "environmental destruction directly translates to our own destruction"
Settler colonialism
Original people being completely removed
New people fully replacing old people
Historical
Stages
1 - Spanish missionization (1769-1820)
Slavery-like conditions
Forced Catholicism
2 - Second wave (1821-1845)
Slavery
Disease (primary population reduction)
3 - Gold rush (1846-1873)
Environmental harm
Slavery
Massacres
Stolen land
Misleading 'deals'
Gov refusing to give up land