According to the U.N., genocide occurs when at least one of the following occurs: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; and forcibly transferring children of the group to another group. In the case of the …
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…Before Columbus arrived, the number of Native Americans in the 48 continuous states of America was over 12 million. Four hundred years later it whittled down to just 237 thousand. The numbers alone can basically prove genocide occurred. According to Common Sense magazine, the Indian Health service was sterilizing 3000 Native American women per year, which is roughly four to six percent of the childbearing population. If that was not genocide, then I do not know what is. -munsell