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Week 17 Flashcards

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Genocide

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  • Raphael Lemkin 1900-1959
  • Barbarity Ldestruction of national groups
  • Vandalism: destruction of unique cultural artifacts
  • “Criminal intent to destroy or cripple permanently a human group”
  • not direct but destruction of life ways
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8 Techniques of Destruction

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  • political
  • social
  • cultural
  • economic
  • biological
  • physical
  • religious
  • moral
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Lemkin and Colonialization

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  • intrinsically genocidal
    1- destruction of INdigenous way of life
    2- newcomers impose their way of life on Indigenous peoples
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UN Definition of genocide (a-e)

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A) Killing members of group
B) Causiing bodily harm/ mental harm
C) Inflicting life conditions leading to physical destruction
D) Imposing measure to prevent births
E) Transfering children to another group

  • removed cultural as an aspect of genocide
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Indigenous Genocide Examples

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  • clearing land of Indigenous people
  • forcing labour onto Indigenous people
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Cultural Genocide

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  • Ethnocide
  • preventing people from perpetuating thier identity or living how they wish
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American Manifest Destiny (Genocide)

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  • settlers planned/ intended to push out Indigenous people
    (disease alone was not the cause)
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Kalinago Genocide

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  • killing of 2000 island Caribs by English/ French in their sleep (After the Caribs planned to eliminate them)
  • En/Fr invited them for a part where they got them drunk and killed them in their sleep, remainders were gathered up and killed or enslaved
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Jeffery Amherst

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  • gave infected blankets to Indigenous people
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Lewis Cass

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Withheld smallpox vaccines to Indigenous people

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Trail of Teat

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17000 Cherokee people removed from land (half died)

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Sand Creek Massacre

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-John Chivington led men to killing Cheyenne Arapaho (taking trophies of victory)

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California Genocide

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  • Murdering of 10K Californian Indigenous, allowed by government
  • also sold as slaves
  • scalps and heads were also rewarded.
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potlatch

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banned by Canada
-gifting exercise often with a dinner as well

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Wild West Shows

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  • displayed killing of indigenous people/ displacing of them
  • Portrayed exploitively
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Buffalo Bill Cody

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  • character from Ned Buntline who wrote “King of the Border Men”
  • became a show “Scouts of the Prairie”
  • Wild West shows started in 1883
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Chief Sitting Bull

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  • Joined Buffalo Bill’s show and became star attraction
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Haka Ceremony

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  • ruled out, but became a cultural life
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Colonial Intrutionsinto Indigenous Lives

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1- taking kids into adoption
2- putting childdren in residential schools
3- banning interracial sexual and marital relations

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Indigenous people and economics

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  • Hoped they can take care of themselves economically
  • tried to provide some relief but did not try to draw them into local economies
  • gov motivations mixed littlework was successful
  • became poor in colonial societies
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Hokkaido Aborigine Protection Act

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  • encouraged integrationof Ainto into Mainstream society
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Great Exhibition of London

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  • idealized societies they wanted to displace
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Two Types of Genociede

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1- Intentionalist (Holocaust)
2- Structuralist (creating a colony erasing original people, “silent genocide”)

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Three Problems with the Internationalist Paradigm

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  • Perpetrator agency is often difficult to identify in colonial context
  • Many indigenous deaths were caused by European disease and land displacement
  • harming indigenous people was attributed to greedy colonist, rather than to the colonial project
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relations of Genocide

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  • removes the centrality of state policy and premeditation in the internationist definition
  • all australians live in objective “relations of genocide”with aborignes and australia was a genocidal society because its original inhabitants died despite gov. help
  • often society led then state-led
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Indigenocide

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  • group of immigrants supplant Indigenous people
    1- Intentional invasion/ colonization of land
    2 - conquest of Indigenous peoples
    3 - killin indigenous peoples tothe entent they can bearly reproduce
    4- classification as vermin by invaders
    5- attempted destruction of Indigenous religious systems
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Rethinking Intention

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  • cobut all policiy makers in the huge apparatus of colonialism had choices
  • colonizers did not take their humanitarian concerns seriously enough to halt the project
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Processes of Radicalization

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  • no difference between intending to commit genocide and commit economic development
  • became more radializaed when Indigenous people resisted it
  • Logic of process
    1- seize land and resources
    2- subdue and kill those in process
    3- ensure that colonial economic system does not collapse

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