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From: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor)
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Subject: Re: Native Americans
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Date: Tue, 28-Feb-84 13:17:03 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 28 13:17:03 1984
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> 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
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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
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