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Those evil European Invaders 

http://www.bluecorncomics.com/evileuro.htm

Civilizations under Siege - The European Conquest of the Americas (good info)

http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/E/conquest/siegexx.htm

Countering Prejudice Against American Indians and Alaska Natives Through Antibias Curriculum and Instruction - they actually feel a need for this in America!

http://gopher.ael.org/~eric/digests/edorc964.html

What is more expected is this:

http://www.horizons.k12.mi.us/~aim/genocide.html

This is something every nation must do - put an end to collective bias and cultural aggrandizement!

THE GENOCIDE OF NATIVE AMERICANS:
A SOCIOLOGICAL VIEW

http://www.isis.csuhayward.edu/ALSS/soc/NAN/dd/6800sj/slj.htm

Good site on Native American/American Indian/Amerindian genocide:

http://www.dickshovel.com/DeadIndians.html
From William Trent's description of the "gift" to the Delaware, 1763:

Out of our regard to them [the Delawares] we gave them two Blankets and Handkerchief out of the Small Pox Hospital. I hope it will have the desired effect.


http://www.dickshovel.com/genosite.html

Part of the reason for such genocidal activity (beginning in part with the Sand Creek Massacre) was an attempt by the United States government, especially the military, to dispossess the Native American of land guaranteed by theTreaty of Fort Laramie, encompassing essentially the entire Great Plains.


Also check this out - from the same site - The Body as the Battleground in Indonesia (read, "East Timor in particular"):
http://www.dickshovel.com/norplant.html

MUST READ: Insult to Injury!!! The whole of this page will entrance you and hook you on! How far can one go without being considerate of a wronged people's national conscience, without the least bit of empathy? Can't some things go without telling? Yet another well-delivered piece, in my humble opinion.

http://www.dickshovel.com/crimes.html

Okay. let's communicate. We are frankly dubious that those advancing such positions really believe their own rhetoric but, just for the sake of argument, let's accept the premise that they are sincere. If what they say is true, then isn't it time we spread such "inoffensiveness" and "good cheer" around among all the groups so that everybody can participate equally in fostering the national round of laughs they call for? Sure it is - the country can't have too much fun or "intergroup" involvement - so the more, the merrier. Simple consistency demands that anyone who thinks the Tomahawk Chop is a swell pastime must be just as hearty in their endorsement of the following ideas - by the logic used to defend the defamation of American Indians - should help us all really start yukking it up.

First, as a counterpart to the Redskins, we need an NFL team called "Niggers" to honor Afro-Americans. Half-time festivities for fans might include a simulated stewing of the opposing coach in a large pot while players and cheerleaders dance around it, garbed in leopard skins and wearing fake bones in their noses. This concept obviously goes along with the kind of gaiety attending the Chop, but also with the actions of the Kansas Chiefs, whose team members - prominently including black members - lately appeared on a poster ,looking "fierce" and "savage" by way of wearing Indian regalia. Just a bit of harmless "morale boosting," says the Chief's front office. You bet.

So that the newly-formed Niggers sports club won't end up too out of sync while expressing the "spirit" and "identity" of Afro-Americans in the above fashion, a baseball franchise - let's call this one the "Sambos" - should be formed. How about a basketball team called the "spearchuckers/" A hockey team called the "Jungle Bunnies/" Maybe the "essence of these teams could be depicted by images of tiny black faces adorned with huge pairs of lips. The players could appear on TV every week or so gnawing on chicken legs and spitting watermelon seeds at one another. Catchy, eh? Well, there's "nothing to be upset about," according to those who love wearing "war bonnets" to the Super Bowl or having "Chief Illiniwik" dance around the sports arenas of Urbana, Illinois.

And why stop there? There are plenty of other groups to include. "Hispanics?" They can be "represented" by the Galveston "Greasers" and the San Diego "Spics," at least until the Wisconsin "Wetbacks" and Baltimore "Beaners" get off the ground. Asian Americans? How about the "slopes," "Dinks," "Gooks," and "Zipperheads?" Owners of the latter teams might get their logo ideas from editorial page cartoons printed in the nation's newspapers during World War II: slanteyes, buck teeth, big glasses, but nothing racially insulting or derogatory, according to the editors and artists involved at the time. Indeed, this Second World War-vintage stuff can be seen as just another barrel of laughs at least by what current editors say are their "local standards" concerning American Indians.

Let's see. Who's been left out Teams like the Kansas City "Kikes," Hanover "Honkies," San Leandro "Shylock," Daytona "Dagos," and Pittsburg "Polacks" will fill a certain social void among white folk. Have a religious belief? Let's all go for the gusto and gear up the Milwaukee "Mackeral Snappers" and Hollywood "Holy Rollers." The Fighting Irish of Notre Dame can be rechristened the "Drunken Irish" or "Papist Pigs." Issues of gender and sexual preference can be addressed through creation of teams like the St. Louis "Sluts," Boston "Bimbos," Detroit "Dykes," and the Fresno "Fags." How about the Gainsville "Gimps" and the richmond "Retards," so the physically and mentally impaired won't be excluded from our fun and games?

Spiritual and Cultural Genocide... (Native Americans)

http://www.nemasys.com/ghostwolf/Native/genocide.shtml

(...) "...Let me remind you only of the witch-hunts of the middle ages, the horrors of the French revolution, or the genocide of the American Indians... in such periods there are always only a very few who do not succumb. But when it is all over, everyone, horrified, asks `for heaven's sake, how could I?' " - Albert Speer, Hitler's minister of war production, writing from prison in 1953.

"Hitler's concept of concentration camps as well as the practicality of genocide owed much, so he claimed, to his studies of English and United States history. He admired the camps for Boer prisoners in South Africa and for the Indians in the wild west; and often praised to his inner circle the efficiency of America's extermination - by starvation and uneven combat - of the red savages who could not be tamed by captivity." P. 202, "Adolph Hitler" by John Toland

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Spiritual and cultural genocide... as the Native Americans are faced with either being totally assimilated by the Western Culture - or dying out on the many reservations... kept there, out of the way and out of mind, by supposedly beneficent governments; ignored and forgotten by the citizens of those nations...

Spiritual and cultural genocide, as the elders and parents helplessly watch their children leave to make a living in the "civilized" world, as those children and young adults willfully turn their backs on their heritage, language, and culture and willfully accept the stereotypical views of "civilization."

Spiritual and cultural genocide, as the great civilized masses of North America - and indeed the world - scurry pell-mell into the next century, focusing on technology and consumer goods... as "save the whales" and "save the children" and "save the earth" become the battle-cries of the various subcultures... not that those are bad things; they aren't, and they are needed.

But - the American Indian Cultures from southern-most tip of South America to the northenmost tip of Canada and Alaska are left behind, an afterthought, a mote of dust caught up in the tornado of "progress"...

Relegated to symbolic and denegrating mascots for sports teams, insulting icons for various holidays, and stereotypical villains for the movie industry; shoved off - out of site and out of mind - to die out on reservations. (...)

Human Rights for Oil Program

S C I E N C E A N D T H E I N D I G E N O U S A R C T I C

http://www.cwis.org/fwdp/Americas/arctic.txt

From Alaska to Six Nations to California, Participants Say Genocide

http://nativenet.uthscsa.edu/archive/nl/9307/0178.html

Aztecs and Incas for Gold, Gwich’in Athapaskan Indians of northern Alaska for Black Gold? Opinion.

Drilling for oil in Alaska: learn history’s lesson

By Kelly Paul
http://www.wesleyan.edu/argus/archives/aa_archive_nov132001/dateyear/w12.html

WHERE DID ALL THE INDIANS GO? Addressing the "Removal" of Native Americans,
and the Subversion of Natural Culture By Jerry Mander

Richard Drinnon, 1980: 

A short, quick step had thus taken the English from burning and spoiling the country to burning and spoiling some four hundred persons in little over an hour. ..... Though the Pequots were the first of the New England tribes to sense the genocidal intentions of the English and the implications of their different style of battle [involving killing of large numbers of non-combatants], the fury of the attack on their fort still was demoralizing.

Neal Salisbury, 1982: 

The victory, though primarily a Connecticut accomplishment, was one with which all Puritans could identify. The rhetoric and imagery of the Pequot slaughter were deliberately reminiscent of the Old Testament, particularly of the Israelites "smiting" the Canaanites and driving them from the Promised Land. In 1637 this message was important.

Laurence Hauptmann, 1990: 

What befell the Pequots in 1637 and afterward clearly fits the most widely accepted definition of genocide, one set by the United Nations Convention on Genocide in 1948. ..... Modern Pequots use this tragedy to overcome tragedy. They see their present-day successes as the long culmination of holding actions and survival strategies developed over the centuries. The War of 1637 is thus indelibly marked in the contemporary Pequot's psyche and has influenced nearly every phase of the tribal renaissance over the past decade and a half. Moreover, Pequots can hardly escape their past even if they try, since their reservations date from the mid-1660s and the site of the Mystic Fort is only ten miles down the road from the reservation.

http://gfisher.org/a_world_new_to_some.htm (This link is good for only the above three passages, in terms of the context. I had to provide the source, hadn't I?)

Raid on Indians' fort in New England. May 26, 1637.

The text in the upper left hand corner of the engraving reads: "The figure of the Indians fort or Palizado in New England And the maner of the destroying It by Captayne Underhill And Captayne Mason." A contemporary account reads: "Many were burnt in the fort, both men, women, and children. Others forced out,...twenty and thirty at a time, which our soldiers received and entertained with the point of the sword. Down fell men, women, and children; those that scaped us fell into the hands of the Indians that were in the rear of us."

The Trail of Tears:

http://www.ngeorgia.com/history/nghisttt.html

A ramshackle page about the Trail of Tears - but provides good keywords:

http://www.fatherryan.org/holocaust/tears/index.htm

Trail of Tears - the banknotes of the United States of America STILL revere the perpetrator of this disgraceful page in U.S. history!

Jackson's portrait appears on the U.S. $20 bill.

http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Jackson

Gold, Greed & Genocide

http://www.1849.org/

http://www.gbt.org/wilkins/christianity_and_conquest.htm

Christian apologists - had not the numbers of Native Americans dwindled to the point of diminishment, these freaking octothorps would've had me smelling trouble!

Rev. Wilkins America is the only nation (apart from Israel) to be founded for the purpose of glorifying God. The Puritans of Jamestown and Pilgrims of Plymouth both came for the purpose of founding a country that would be distinctively Christian. (A short answer for a change!)

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ACCUSATION #2: "How can you defend the genocide of Indian cultures?" ...

Genocide, i.e., the planned, systematic extermination of a people or culture, never happened. The Conquistadors never engaged in "meaningless slaughter." Medieval scholar, Stafford Poole, has stated, "There are other terms to describe what happened in the Western Hemisphere, but genocide is not one of them. It is a good propaganda term in an age where slogans and shouting have replaced reflection and learning, but to use it in this context is to cheapen both the word itself and the appalling experiences of Jews and Armenians, to mention but two of the major victims of this century." Genocide was never considered (or attempted) by any of the explorers or their royal sponsors. But, as Poole says, it makes good copy for professional propagandists.

ACCUSATION #3: "What about the slavery introduced by the Europeans?"...

First, slavery, was not introduced into this hemisphere by the Europeans. It was here for many hundreds of years before the arrival of Columbus. But secondly, the slavery that did occur was challenged and opposed by many European theologians and others. This opposition led Queen Isabella to outlaw enslavement of the natives of the New World within a decade of the first contact.
This was unheard of in a day when slavery was accepted and commonplace.

http://www.homeschoolchristian.com/ChristianEd/Wilkins.html

Wilkins is advised to read about the Middle Passage! Or maybe head back to grade-school.

Keep reading on the same page, the same outrageous baloney from this freaking octothorp:

There is no question that the coming of Christian Europeans brought about radical changes in this hemisphere. Many native cultures were never the same again. But, the question should be asked, "Was this detrimental or evil?" What precisely did the Indians lose because of Christianity?

We can list a few things: They lost tyranny, oppression, and ignorance. They lost the terrifying spirit-world of paganism. They lost their ferocious hatred for others that fed fierce racism and cruelty. They lost the practices of human sacrifice and cannibalism, infanticide and euthanasia, immorality and homosexuality. They lost a way of life predicated upon death and destruction. Only in this century have such "losses" been viewed as a reason for grief.

Wilkins, baby, read what it says in the Britannica - vol. 10, page 874, 15th edition, under the entry of "slavery":

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Slavery was also a common practice among the native Indian tribes of South America. When the Spanish conquered a large part of the New World in the late 15th century, they put the Indians to work in their mines and fields. The Indians, however, died quickly because of exposure to European diseases and harsh working conditions. To remedy this problem, the Spaniards began importing slaves from Africa in 1517. The Africans were sent first to the West Indies and then to the mainland, where the sugar industry was flourishing. Thus began the harsh institution of black plantation slavery.

The first African slaves in North America arrived at the English colony of Virginia aboard a Dutch ship in 1619. (...)

No wonder Americans have a reputation for being bad in history! :P

Conscience speaking out against revering Christopher Columbus and Co.:

http://www.thepeoplespaths.net/history/columbus.html

http://www.honors.unr.edu/~fenimore/sutter/dqu1.htm

http://www.progressive.org/pmp0701/pmpco201.html

http://wildcat.arizona.edu/papers/91/34/04_3_m.html

http://www.bluecorncomics.com/genocide.htm

The Curse of Columbus...

COLUMN OF THE AMERICAS: THE CURSE OF CORTEZ

http://www.voznuestra.com/Americas/_2002/_May/31

The Middle Passage

http://www.juneteenth.com/middlep.htm

http://www.middlepassage.org/

http://www.tmpf.org/history.htm

http://beatl.barnard.columbia.edu/students/his3487/lembrich/seminar5.html

http://www.iath.virginia.edu/vcdh/jamestown/mpassage.html

http://www.clpgh.org/clp/archive/feelings.html

http://www.mariner.org/captivepassage/middlepassage/

Abstract of the conference, MIDDLE PASSAGE:
MEMORY, HISTORY, METAPHOR:

http://americanhistory.si.edu/paac/paacmid.htm

Slave rebellions - 

http://search.eb.com/blackhistory/micro/551/34.html

To tell you the truth, I've looked into this quite a bit, so much so that first I read about the Denmark Vesey story - 

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part3/3p2976.html,

then read about how Denmark Vesey had not played a role in the rebellion named after him -

http://www.jhu.edu/~gazette/2001/22oct01/22sleuth.html,

and then nodded to myself and said, "I know why!" when I read 

"Robertson pulls out details of the insurrection and brings it to national attention in imitable, stolid prose; he puts forth the startling premise that Charleston officials had taken pains to eradicate all records of the attempted coup so slaves elsewhere wouldn't get any ideas. Given the comparative silence of contemporary publications on the matter, he's probably right: the Charleston Times didn't even publish any articles about it on the eve of the rebellion, or the next day. The Charleston Courier, also silent, finally put in a grotty six-line mention about the conspirators after arraignment. Robertson himself had to contend with finding a published account of the case wrested from the Carolinas by a Union soldier in 1862. The book has become rare, due to the efforts on the part of local judges to destroy the work. Locals also feared the account would fall into the hands of their slaves and foment still more rebellion (contrast this to the Roman method of handling insurrection, which was to crucify slaves in the open as a warning).

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"That Robertson manages to pull a book out of the slim accounts is pretty impressive. He does this by dipping into descriptions of Charleston itself and the racial disharmony and complexity therein, and this serves to strengthen the conflicting aspects and personal motivations in the narrative."

http://www.historyhouse.com/book/067944288X/

Learning this much wasn't the intent - rather a side-effect. :) LOL...

Chronology of the life of Lydia Maria Child, abolitionist and anti-slavery activist - interesting look into the life, trials, and turmoils of this contrarian - 

http://www.drizzle.com/~tmercer/Child/chron.shtml

A History of the Japanese-American Internment

http://www.fatherryan.org/hcompsci/

http://www.fatherryan.org/holocaust/Japanese/index.htm

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aamhtml/

http://www.oz.net/~cyu/internment/main.html

World War II - The internment of German American civilians

http://www.foitimes.com/internment/

http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/

Spaniards v. Incas and the Fall of the Inca Empire

http://www.millersv.edu/~columbus/papers/white.html

Pizarro's "feats" described in the most diplomatic way:

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/7012/pizarro.html

There can be no doubt the Inca rule was heavy upon the common people but the Spanish conquest (from 1532 to 1538) was no deliverance. As so often happens in conquests, the conquerors merely changed one set of rulers for a worse. In the Spanish case, the new conquerors were not merely bad. They carried out a material and spiritual oppression which today would be called genocide.

http://www.sael.org.za/hinca103.htm

Brazil's "Genocide Decree"

http://multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/mm0396.03.html

Brazilian Indians in London to Launch Surivival Report and Reveal Scandal of Child Suicides London

http://www.babylontravel.net/english/mailbox/e-update-survival005.htm

http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/americas/9909/22/colombia.oil.01/

BOGOTA, Colombia -- The Colombian government has granted a U.S. petroleum giant a license to explore for oil next to Indian lands, rejecting a remote tribe's assertion that the result would be "cultural and environmental genocide."

Environment Minister Juan Mayr announced the decision to allow Los Angeles-based Occidental Petroleum Corp. to conduct exploratory drilling just outside a 543,000-acre reserve inhabited by the tiny U'wa Indian nation. (...)