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Re: Native American genocide?

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Originally Posted by cbussey View Post
Meaning no indians experienced ethnic cleansing. I didn't see anything in the OXFORD dictionary definition that defines ethnic cleansing as shooting them away. Our indians, what are left of them, did not experience ethnic cleansing, they experienced genocide. They are survivors of a holocaust.
Many times killings go hand in hand with ethnic cleansing, but that doesn't make it genocide. Take a look at the Balkans, or Germany, again, after WW2.

And in order to be considered genocide, targetted extermination would have to be the standard practice when dealing with every indian tribe, which it wasn't.
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