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Just to clear any misconceptions out there, let us claim a genocide upon America, any America throughout history that has claimed its country's name after the entirety of the continent, and then source said claim. I'll start, naturally, with the earliest, though, it's not entirely accurate to call it an American genocide, but it will be an eery forecast for the coming discussion:
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Eliot_Morison
Have at it.
Whoever thought up this ghastly system, Columbus was responsible for it, as the only means of producing gold for export…Those who fled to the mountains were hunted with hounds, and of those who escaped, starvation and disease took toll, while thousands of the poor creatures in desperation took cassava poison to end their miseries.
So the policy and acts of Columbus for which he alone was responsible began the depopulation of the terrestrial paradise that was Hispaniola in 1492. Of the original natives, estimated by a modern ethnologist at 300,000 in number, one-third were killed off between 1494 and 1496. By 1508, an enumeration showed only 60,000 alive…in 1548 Oviedo [Morison is referring to Fernandez de Oviedo, the official Spanish historian of the conquest] doubted whether 500 Indians remained.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Eliot_Morison
Have at it.