The question is not whether the US killed them. The question is whether it was an official policy to eradicate them; that's what makes something "genocide." And it was.
stannard
Genocide. No question about it.Though I have not read, "American Holocaust, " published by Oxford Univ. Press, blurbed by Zinn on this.
Since, one of my recent book puirchases was the new book by Samantha Power, "A Problem From Hell: America and Genocide, " which opens with a chapter on Lemkin and the original codification of the legal and moral definition of genocide (and, Peter K. posted notice of the book heree to silence...) I would be interested to hear of y'all reactions to her work. An excerpt of it was in the NYRB recently and she has an article in the newest issue of Dissent. Michael Pugliese