U.S. treatment of Native Americans constituted genocide through varied means including education

Evidence

Yet the genocide of Native Americans was far larger, if spread over a longer period of time. It also took a variety of forms, from direct murder to the control and destruction of the sources of their livelihoods, the spread of disease, and the use of schooling to destroy Indian culture. — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education, 1191

Categorization

• XREF: Extends schooling-as-violence claim (ch14) to settler-colonial context central to the polyad. — connects to: American settlement was a history of dispossessing native peoples — Lawrence M. Friedman, A History of American Law, 273; Settler schooling functioned deliberately as deculturalization of native peoples — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 1197; For colonial subjects the racial trauma occurs in childhood schooling (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Settler schooling functioned deliberately as deculturalization of native peoples #expands (0.95) — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education, 1197
• American settlement was a history of dispossessing native peoples #expands (0.85) — Lawrence M. Friedman, A History of American Law, 273
• American Indian children were forcibly re-racialized as white by removal and assimilation #exemplifies (0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 2421
• For colonial subjects the racial trauma occurs in childhood schooling #exemplifies (0.82)
• Disease deaths under colonial conditions constitute genocide by neglect. #corroborates (0.82) — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the…, 103
• Cultural-erasure denial licensed apartheid and Native American dispossession #corroborates (0.80) — Michael A. Sells, The Bridge Betrayed, 385