Gary Clayton Anderson. Ethnic Cleansing and the Indian

The term “ethnic cleansing” first came into widespread usage during the violence in Bosnia-Herzegovina in the early 1990s. As the former Yugoslavia collapsed in the aftermath of the Cold War and various ethnic populations sought independence, paramilitary groups sought to remove different ethnicities from the territory they controlled through intimidation, terror, mass murder, mass rape, and forced dispossession and exile. “Ethnic cleansing” became synonymous with the worst excesses of the violence in Bosnia and became part of our modern lexicon of atrocity and horror. In Ethnic Cleansing and the Indian: The Crime That Should Haunt America, historian Gary Clayton Anderson makes the case for retroactively using the concept of ethnic cleansing to explain the history of post-contact Native America. In recent years, this topic has been the subject of a great deal of attention as scholars and activists have sought to describe and contextualize the experiences of the Native peoples of the Americas around such issues as colonialism, displacement, assimilation, and genocide. Anderson's work places him squarely within this larger dialogue.

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