Person
Gary Clayton Anderson
Historian; author of Ethnic Cleansing and the Indian.
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- The scholarly debate over the word "genocide" argues, as Dunbar-Ortiz quotes him, that genocide will not be the accepted word; his own term for removal is ethnic cleansing. His book was not read for this story Scholarship & press 12
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- Ethnic Cleansing and the Indian Scholarship & press 1
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Yes, Native Americans Were the Victims of Genocide, History News Network, via Portside, 12 May 2016.
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Genocide will never become a widely accepted characterization for what happened in North America, because large numbers of Indians survived and because policies of mass murder on a scale similar to events in central Europe, Cambodia, or Rwanda were never implemented.
Gary Clayton Anderson, in his recent book, “Ethnic Cleansing and the Indian,” argues:
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Genocide and American Indian History, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History, 2 Mar 2015.
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Scholars have begun referring to Indian removal as ethnic cleansing, a term whose aptness seems incontestable.
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