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  2. Beothuk - Wikipedia

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    Scholars disagree in their definition of "genocide" in relation to the Beothuk. [33] While some scholars believe that the Beothuk died out as an unintended consequence of European colonization, others argue that Europeans conducted a sustained campaign of genocide against them. [34]

  3. Canadian genocide of Indigenous peoples - Wikipedia

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    Scholars disagree in their definition of genocide in relation to the Beothuk. [85] While some scholars believe that the Beothuk died out as an unintended consequence of European colonization, others argue that Europeans conducted a sustained campaign of genocide against them. [86] [87]

  4. John Peyton (fisherman) - Wikipedia

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    In 1819, he took part in an expedition led by his son John Peyton Jr., which ended with the capture of a Beothuk woman named Demasduit [4] and the killing of her husband Nonosabasut, who was attempting to negotiate her release. [5] The last known living Beothuk, Shawnadithit, spent five years as a servant in the Peyton household. Peyton Jr. was ...

  5. List of genocides - Wikipedia

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    Scholarship varies on the definition of genocide employed when analysing whether events are genocidal in nature. [2] The United Nations Genocide Convention, not always employed, defines genocide as "any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or ...

  6. Denial of genocides of Indigenous peoples - Wikipedia

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    The denialism claim contradicts the academic consensus, which acknowledges that genocide was committed. [1] [2] The claim is a form of denialism, genocide denial, historical negationism and historical revisionism. The atrocity crimes include genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and ethnic cleansing. [3]

  7. Population history of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas

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    [183] [184] [185] In a speech before representatives of Native American peoples in June 2019, California governor Gavin Newsom apologized for the "California Genocide." Newsom said, "That's what it was, a genocide. No other way to describe it. And that's the way it needs to be described in the history books." [186]

  8. Genocide of indigenous peoples - Wikipedia

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    The genocide of indigenous peoples, colonial genocide, [1] or settler genocide [2] [3] [note 1] is the elimination of indigenous peoples as a part of the process of colonialism. [ note 2 ] According to certain genocide experts, including Raphael Lemkin – the individual who coined the term genocide – colonialism is intimately connected with ...

  9. Selkʼnam genocide - Wikipedia

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    Beyond the spread of disease, massacres, and the campaign of extermination, another tool in the genocide was the forcible adoption and assimilation of Selkʼnam children into European families. [46] This included many "irregular" adoptions, of which there are no formal records, so the connection to a Selkʼnam identity was completely lost.