Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site dciem.UUCP Path: utzoo!dciem!mmt From: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Native Americans Message-ID: <745@dciem.UUCP> Date: Tue, 28-Feb-84 13:17:03 EST Article-I.D.: dciem.745 Posted: Tue Feb 28 13:17:03 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 28-Feb-84 17:06:33 EST References: <897@ihuxm.UUCP> Organization: D.C.I.E.M., Toronto, Canada Lines: 22 =============== > I have always wondered why the Native American Indian has never taken the > whole of the United States to court for the attempted genocide of an entire > race. Look what happened to Germany when they tried. No reason to exclude Mexico or Canada from the suit, is there? Carl W. Amport an American in the US of A =============== Yes, there is. Indian conditions may not be great in Canada now, but at the time the US Cavalry was bent on exterminating them, Canada was where they took refuge. The Canadian West was settled not by conquest, but by agreement (perhaps coerced, but nevertheless without significant bloodshed). In general, the police came before the settlers in Canada, rather than being introduced after the law of the jungle became too much for people to tolerate, as was the case in much of the US West. -- Martin Taylor {allegra,linus,ihnp4,uw-beaver,floyd,ubc-vision}!utzoo!dciem!mmt