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“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
Quotations:
"The destruction of the Indians of the Americas was, far and away, the most massive act of genocide in the history of the world." David E. Stannard. 4
"This violent corruption needn't define us.... We can say, yes, this happened, and we are ashamed. We repudiate the greed. We recognize and condemn the evil. And we see how the harm has been perpetuated. But, five hundred years later, we intend to mean something else in the world." Barry Lopez. 3
"By then [1891] the native population had been reduced to 2.5% of its original numbers and 97.5% of the aboriginal land base had been expropriated....Hundreds upon hundreds of native tribes with unique languages, learning, customs, and cultures had simply been erased from the face of the earth, most often without even the pretense of justice or law." Peter Montague 1
native american genocide in america
An example of a genocidal event that has featured prominently in the field's historiography is the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864. On the morning of November 29, 1864, the Colorado Third Cavalry, under the command of Colonel John M. Chivington, attacked the sleeping encampment of Chief Black Kettle's Cheyenne and Arapaho at Sand Creek. The resulting scene left a large number of unarmed Native American men, women, and children dead, their bodies mutilated by Chivington's men. This horrific event has received considerable attention from scholars due to certain statements made previous to the attack. In authorizing Chivington's Third Cavalry in their 100-day tour of duty, Colorado Governor John Evans gave instructions to "kill and destroy, as enemies of the country, wherever they may be found, all such hostile Indians" (U.S. Congress, House of Representatives, 1865, p. 47). It was later reported that Chivington echoed this policy by pronouncing his goal to "kill and scalp all, little and big; that nits made lice" (U.S. Congress, Senate, 1865, p. 71). Taken together, a specific group was singled out for utter destruction, and the actions of the Colorado Third Cavalry on the cold morning of November 29, 1864, indicate that such intent was actualized in the massacre of members of that defined group.
http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1034&context=historydiss
Genocide of Native Americans
UnderstandingPrejudice.org: Reading Room - Genocide in America
- Brown, D. A. (2007). Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (4th Owl Books ed.). New York: Henry Holt & Company.
- Churchill, W. (1998). A Little Matter of Genocide: Holocaust and Denial in the Americas, 1492 to the Present. San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books.
- Churchill, W. (1994). Indians Are Us? Culture and Genocide in Native North America. Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press.
- Drinnon, R. (1997). Facing West: The Metaphysics of Indian-Hating and Empire-Building. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press.
- Jahoda, G. (1995). The Trail of Tears. San Antonio, TX: Wings Press.
- Kakel, P. (2011). The American West and the Nazi East: A Comparative and Interpretive Perspective. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Mann, B. A. (2008). George Washington's War on Native America. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press.
- Stannard, D. E. (1992). American Holocaust: Columbus and the Conquest of the New World. New York: Oxford University Press.
- Thornton, R. (1990). American Indian Holocaust and Survival: A Population History Since 1492. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press.
- VanDevelder, P. (2009). Savages and Scoundrels: The Untold Story of America's Road to Empire through Indian Territory. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
- Williams, E. (Ed.). (1963). Documents of West Indian History (vol. 1, 1492-1655; see pp. 55-67 158-160, 290). Port-of-Spain, Trinidad: PNM Publishing Co.
"To call American Holocaust a polemic rather than a sound historical study would be to understate seriously Stannard's animus against Christianity and the West, and his treacly view of Indian life and culture. The book's three main parts, "Before Columbus," "Pestilence and Genocide," and "Sex, Race, and Holy War," are towering in their ambition, but so skewed is their author's vision that they end up so grossly misshapen as to be useless as either propaganda or history."
So much for Stannard's ridiculous work, and the theory of the "Indian genocidal campaign" that never was...
"Professor Stannard...has become his own "wild man," fleeing rational historical inquiry and discourse to follow the ignis fatuus of "genocide" into the fever swamps of "Holocaust studies." Since Stannard has dared to give conditional endorsement to the recognition by Arno Mayer, a Holocaust believer (but dissident), that more Jews died at Auschwitz from natural causes than from purposeful killing (p. 254), he risks an untimely end to his scholarly career, for, as Revisionist researchers could tell him, the rotting stumps and phosphorescent toadstools of the Exterminationist quagmire are infested by as nasty a species of swamp adders and alligators as populate any of the groves of academe. Few proud red men, and even fewer proud whites, will mourn the demise of American studies a la Stannard.
JHR Archive — A Failed Look at Europe's Impact on America's Native Peoples (review)
