Mario Goveia wrote: > >Genocide is what Hitler did to the Jews and >others.....The early American settlers did no such >thing....Where there was no armed resistance there was >no killing, as proven by the numerous indigenous >Americans who survive, and those who survive through >the descendants of intermarriage with the settlers. >
Professional historians who have studied the history of native Americans have referred to the killing of these indigenous people as genocide or holocaust. For example the historian David Stannard has described the massacres and atrocities committed by the European conquerors this way, in a book titled “American Holocaust: The Conquest of the New World”, which was published by the Oxford University Press in 1992. > >The claims of smallpox in blankets etc. are all bogus. >Simple common sense, which anti-Americans seem to >eschew when on the attack, should tell Cornel that. In >the days before any smallpox vaccine, such tactics >would have wiped out the perpetrators just as surely >as any intended victim. > >From all accounts it appears that there was a precipitous and substantial reduction of the population of native Americans immediately after contact with Europeans. This was primarily due to infectious diseases such as small pox, to which Amerindians were highly susceptible because the small pox virus was not indigenous to their land. The small pox blanket story can be traced to some correspondence between a British general, a captain and a colonel who appear to have had some sort of genocidal intent. These letters are archived by the U.S. Library of Congress. Cheers, Santosh
