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It was the extermination of entire tribes — the murder and displacement of millions, the theft of lands, the destruction of cultures.<\/p>\n

And yet, according to Yale<\/a> professor Ned Blackhawk<\/a> (pictured<\/em>), the eradication of Native Americans in the United States and Canada over several centuries somehow escapes consideration as a genocide in many history texts.<\/p>\n

In the April 15 President’s Lecture he delivered to a packed Razzo Hall at Clark University, Blackhawk explored the phenomenon of “scholarly discomfort” with North American genocide.<\/p>\n

His lecture was the keynote to open the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies’<\/a> weekend symposium, “Indigenous Identity and Mass Violence in North America: Genocide of Native Americans?”<\/p>\n

Read more in the Worcester Telegram and Gazette …<\/a><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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