Indigenous People Genocide

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It is impossible to properly address America’s ongoing disparities without knowing their catastrophes about genocide of indigenous peoples, the enslavement of the African, gender inequality, and colonization. The genocide of indigenous peoples is an ongoing issue among the white people because they are trying to justify their action in order to make themselves feel less guilty. Some new white scholar claimed that the suffering of the Native People and the massacres was ethnic cleaning and it was not a genocide. According to American History Review, the “Old World” diseases such as diphtheria, influenza, malaria, measles, scarlet fever, smallpox, typhus, and whooping cough were intentionally targeted to the Native People and killed great numbers

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