United Nations
Definition of Genocide

The Transatlantic
Slave Trade

Genocide of the
Native Americans

The Herero
Genocide

The Armenian
Genocide

The Ukrainian Genocide/
The Great Famine

Rape
of Nanking

The
Holocaust

Mao Tse-tung's
Cultural Revolution

The Killing Fields: The
Cambodian Genocide

Genocide in Bosnia
and Herzegovina

The Rwandan
Genocide

The Genocide
in Darfur

 

 
 
     
 

Genocide of the Native Americans
Beginning in 1830

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         The genocide of peoples indigenous to the U.S. portion of North America proce-eded along different tracks, each defined by the policies of the co-lonial power pursuing it. The colonization began in 1607 when England's Jamestown colonists arrived in present-day Virginia with instructions to "settle" the already heavily populated coastal area. Begin-ning in 1830, the U.S. undertook a policy of

  "removing" all native people from the area east of the Mississippi River. In the series of interments and thousand-mile forced marches which followed, entire peoples were decimated. The Cherokees, for instance, suffered 50 percent fatalities during the "Trail of Tears"; the Choctaws, Chickasaws, Seminoles and Creeks, 25 to 35 percent apiece.
 
     
 
  Picture: "The Trail of Tears" Painting by Robert
Lindneux in the Woolaroc Museum, Bartlesville,
Oklahoma
   
 
 
 
 
 

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