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  • Reexamining the American Genocide Debate: Meaning, Historiography, and New Methods - BENJAMIN MADLEY
    https://watermark.silverchair.com/zah98.pdf?token=AQECAHi208BE49Ooan9kkhW_Ercy7Dm3ZL_9Cf3qfKAc4


    Illustration of Paleo-Indians hunting a glyptodont - Heinrich Harder

    In 1622, the Mayflower passenger Robert Cushman wrote of America: “Our land is full ... their land is empty. This then is a sufficient reason to prove our going thither to live lawful: their land is spacious and void, and they are few and do but run over the grass, as do also the foxes and wild beasts. They are not industrious, neither have [they] art, science, skill or faculty to use either the land or the commodities of it; but all spoils, rots, and is marred for want of manuring, gathering, ordering, etc.” Articulating the vacuum domicilium, or “empty domicile,” theory, which many would cite in attempting to justify their conquest and colonization of North America, Cushman claimed that American Indians did not inhabit their homelands fully enough, either in population density or in economic development, to justify their having legal ownership, particularly in so-called “empty” areas.
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    the question of whether genocide occurred in the United States and its colonial antecedents should be on conference agendas, discussed in classrooms, debated in public forums, and pursued in scholarly journals because the stakes are so high for scholars, American Indians, and all U.S. citizens.
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    Should elected government officials tender public apologies to Native Americans,
    as Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush did in the 1980s for the relocation
    and internment of some 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II? Reparations are an important subordinate issue. Should federal officials offer compensation to American Indians, along the lines of the more than $1.6 billion that Congress awarded to 82,210 of those Japanese Americans and their heirs? The question of commemoration is closely linked. Will non-Indian citizens support or tolerate
    the commemoration of mass murders committed by some of the nation’s forefathers with the same kinds of monuments, museums, and state-legislated days of remembrance that today commemorate the Armenian genocide and the Holocaust? Will genocides against Native Americans join those systematic mass murders in school curricula and public discourse?

    David Stannard - Wikipedia
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Stannard

    “If I were Jewish, how would I mourn the dead?”: Holocaust and Genocide in the Work of Sherman Alexie - Nancy J. Peterson
    https://www.jstor.org/stable/25750715?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

    The Moral Dimensions of 1492 - James Axtell
    https://www.jstor.org/stable/24448883?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

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