Native+American+Genocide+Continued

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 * 1) -The term Genocide derives from the Latin (genos=race, tribe; cide=killing) and means literally the killing or murder of an entire tribe or people.
 * 2) -"By 'genocide' we mean the destruction of a nation or an ethnic group."
 * 3) -The U.N. General Assembly adopted this term and defended it in 1946 as "....a denial of the right of existence of entire human groups."
 * 4) -Most people tend to associate genocide with wholesale slaughter of a specific people. However, "the 1994 U.N. Convention on the Punishment and Prevention of the Crime of Genocide, describes genocide beyond outright murder of people as the destruction and extermination of culture."
 * 5) -Article II of the convention lists five categories of activity as genocidal when directed against a specific "national, ethnic, racial, or religious group."
 * 6) These categories are:
 * 7) Killing members of the group;
 * 8) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of group;
 * 9) Deliberately infliction on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
 * 10) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
 * 11) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
 * 12) By mass-execution prior to the arrival of Columbus the land defined as the 48 contiguous states of America numbered in excess of 12 million.
 * 13) Four centuries later, it had been reduced by 95% (237 thousand).
 * 14) He began to implement slavery and mass-extermination of the Taino population of the Caribbean.
 * 15) Within three years five million were dead.
 * 16) British agents intentionally gave Tribes blankets that were intentionally contaminated with smallpox.
 * 17) The infamous removal of the Five Civilized Tribes -- the Choctaws, Creeks, Chickasaws, Cherokees, and Seminoles -- is a dismal page in United States history.
 * 18) This exodus to Indian Territory is known as the  [|Trail of Tears]  .
 * 19) Approximately four thousand Cherokees died during the removal process because of poor planning by the United States Government
 * 20) One of the major facts the United States Government has failed to understand is that the spiritual aspect of life is inseparable from the economic and the political aspects.
 * 21) The loss of tradition and memory will be the loss of positive sense of self.
 * 22) Those reared in traditional American Native societies are inclined to relate events and experiences to one another, they do not organize perceptions or external events in terms of dualities or priorities.