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The atrocities against Indigenous peoples have related to forced displacement, exile, introduction of new diseases, forced containment in reservations, forced assimilation, forced labour, criminalization, dispossession, land theft, compulsory sterilization, forcibly transferring children of the group to another group, separating children from ...
This resulted in the dispossession of lands and forced migration of Indigenous peoples using various justifications. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] The Canadian government implemented policies such as the Indian Act , [ b ] health-care segregation , residential schools and displacement that attempted forced assimilation of Indigenous peoples into Euro-Canadian ...
The Natives Land Act, 1913 (subsequently renamed Bantu Land Act, 1913 and Black Land Act, 1913; Act No. 27 of 1913) was an Act of the Parliament of South Africa that was aimed at regulating the acquisition of land. It largely prohibited the sale of land from whites to blacks and vice-versa.
[79] [80] Proponents of the genocide thesis, in turn, often accused their critics of denialism and ignoring the evidence of frontier massacres, the violent dispossession of Indigenous Australians of their land, and the systematic removal of Aboriginal children from their families. [76] [81] [82]
This resulted in the dispossession of lands and forced migration of Indigenous peoples using various justifications. [ 139 ] [ 140 ] The Canadian government implemented policies such as the Indian Act , health-care segregation , residential schools and displacement that attempted forced assimilation of Indigenous peoples into Euro-Canadian ...
The Lagos state government flattened Badia East in February 2013 to clear land in an urban renewal zone financed by the World Bank, the global lender committed to fighting poverty. The neighborhood’s poor residents were cast out without warning or compensation and left to fend for themselves in a crowded, dangerous city.
The idea of land exchange, that Native Americans would give up their land east of the Mississippi in exchange for a similar amount of territory west of the river, was first proposed by Jefferson in 1803 and first incorporated into treaties in 1817 (years after the Jefferson presidency). The Indian Removal Act of 1830 included this concept. [46]
In 1890, Dawes himself remarked about the incidence of Native Americans losing their land allotments to settlers: "I never knew a White man to get his foot on an Indian's land who ever took it off." [40] The amount of land in native hands rapidly depleted from some 150 million acres (610,000 km 2) to 78 million acres (320,000 km 2) by 1900. The ...