The UN genocide convention applies to US-Indigenous relations since 1988
Evidence
The convention is not retroactive but is applicable to US-Indigenous relations since 1988, when the US Senate ratified it. The terms of the genocide convention are also useful tools for historical analysis of the effects of colonialism in any era. In the convention, any one of five acts is considered genocide if “committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group” — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the…, 21
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to the four documented genocide periods listed at paragraph 30. — connects to: Unacknowledged wars against Indigenous peoples preceded global US total war — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the…, 37
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the…, 21