It is interesting to note that the Seminoles were the only tribe who were never defeated and never signed a peace treaty with the US.

Matt

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what happend to them?

Are you saying that it isn't genocide if it occured before 'established rules of war' were created?

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thor has a funny way of reasoning things!

They got their very own homepage too...

http://www.seminoletribe.com/

God Bless 'Em.

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Most tribes do these days- what's so remarkable about that?
Here's an excerpt:
Here's ours:
Official Site of the Cherokee Nation based in Tahlequah Oklahoma - Federally Recognized

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Not at all, I am simply pointing out that what happened during WW2 violated established rules of war. What happened to certain native american tribes, while horrible, did not break any rules of war or international law.

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What bearing does this have on whether it was genocide?

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I was just approching it from a legal stand point, that is all. I was not trying to take away what happened to certain tribes, but I am sorry if that is how I came off.

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On the non-genocide side of the argument:

It was mainly about conquest... taking the land and it's resources.

The people who settled the land did not discriminate; They killed everyone who got in their way. I think the motivation for killing the people was to steal from them.... not to purge their race from the earth.
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so i assume your from the school of interpretation that says Andrew Jackson's quote "I think the Cherokee nation needs to be scourged" is taken out of context?

Can genocide not accompany conquest? especially if your goal of conquest is an entire continent, (manifest destiny) and you consider natives incompatible with your social system?

Given that 4 of 6 million holocaust victims were in eastern europe, a future sight of Germanization, is safe to say the holocuast was not genocide but actually part of territorial conquest?

I simply presented a non-genocidal side of the argument. Not necessarily my point of view or school of interpretation.

On the Pro-Genocide of the argument, you could say that Colonials viewed themselves to be racially superior to the Indians (as Hitler and the Nazi's viewed their Aryan race to be superior to the Jews) and thus were bent on exterminating them.

Taking a quote by Andrew Jackson does not prove that this is the case. His quote amounts to promoting extermination, but whether the motivation is to eliminate the people based on their race or based on their opposition to power is unclear. I would interpret his comments to be non-genocidal since he references the Cherokee Nation and not the Cherokee.

Genocide requires an ideology that promotes killing based on race. To prove the pro-genocide side of the argument, you have to show that. If there is mass killing and the victims all happen to be of a certain race, it is not necessarily genocide if the motivation and reasoning is based on something else.

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yet again, htp, you only give the half truth about what happened in eastern europe. Therefore, you trying to relate it to what happened to the native Americans is dishonest.

native americans were killed for their land, not because they were simply native american.

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While in some ways this is true, it is also a little simplistic to deny the strong, racial and religious element of why Americans were killing native americans.

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That is an interesting point because one could think the chronological order to be reversed:
Apparently, democratic people thought at this time that there could be other known rule of warfare, probably more suitable to democratic civilized standards.