>These are all pretty terrible things -- they range from shabby to very
>nasty treatment. But which of these is evidence that the U.S. is
>attempting to exterminate Native Americans? I just finished an article
>on how the media are advertising a spurious "genocide" in Kosovo. It's
>pretty clear that the media are trying to pin the word genocide onto the
>Serbs for propaganda purposes. It's an abuse of the term when the
>mainstream media use it for Kosovo and it's an abuse of the term when
>activists use it for Indians.
Forced assimilation, forced adoption, and forced sterilization all meet the official definition of genocide, no?
Doug