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::::::I agree, early European contact with North American aborigines had a hugely detrimental impact on the aborigines, but it wasn't until sometime later that actual government policy promoted the eradication of these people. I don't consider accidental spread of disease genocide, even if the people spreading the disease didn't consider those getting infected as fully human. But there was a definite period in the history of the U.S. where extermination was, though maybe controversially so, enforced by law and policy. -[[User:DrSandstone|DrSandstone]] 16:20, 3 December 2008 (EST)
::::::I agree, early European contact with North American aborigines had a hugely detrimental impact on the aborigines, but it wasn't until sometime later that actual government policy promoted the eradication of these people. I don't consider accidental spread of disease genocide, even if the people spreading the disease didn't consider those getting infected as fully human. But there was a definite period in the history of the U.S. where extermination was, though maybe controversially so, enforced by law and policy. -[[User:DrSandstone|DrSandstone]] 16:20, 3 December 2008 (EST)
::::::Oh and yes, my use the term "successful" earlier was sarcasm. -[[User:DrSandstone|DrSandstone]] 16:26, 3 December 2008 (EST)
::::::Oh and yes, my use the term "successful" earlier was sarcasm. -[[User:DrSandstone|DrSandstone]] 16:26, 3 December 2008 (EST)
::::::: I think we should take this into consideration. Whether we like the UN or not, I think this is actually a decent list from the post WWII definitions.
::::::::::(a) Killing members of the group;
::::::::::(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
::::::::::(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
::::::::::(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
::::::::::(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
::::::: I-personally- think it probably meets the definition as a genocidal act. [[User:PeytonJ|PeytonJ]] 17:16, 3 December 2008 (EST)