Native Amerikkkan Genocide

[Peter K.]

>I read the article in _NYRB_ twice, the second time because
>I didn't see anything in it about the extermination of the
>Indians and I thought any consideration of the U.S. and genocide
>would have to start with that rather major fact, if only to
>shuffle it off.  According to Theodora Kroeber in _Ishi_,
>Indians were still being hunted for sport in California in
>1910.  It was only thirty-two years or so to Wannsee.
>
>However, I didn't rant about this lacuna anywhere because it
>occurred to me that I might be reading an excerpt, or that I
>had missed something.
>
>-- Gordon

The Nation has a review which will probably be to your liking:

http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020520&s=nevins

Instead of giving the Indians casinos, we should have created some sort of national
museum that would tell the truth about what happened. Also, there should be some sort of national
museum about slavery, one that would be like the Holocaust Museum in DC.

A lot of good that museum did, though, when just 8 years ago over 800,000 human beings were
massacred within 100 days in Rwanda. A lot of good the US government
did when it actually prevented any help from being sent to Rwanda.

And a lot of good the anti-interventionists did at the time. However I agree that one
should be skeptical about a government that was responsible for genocide
- in the post WWII era mind you - in Indonesia, East Timor and Guatemala.

Peter