User:Ale g131/Colonialism and genocide

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The article describes different examples of genocide that followed colonialism throughout history.

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Colonialism has been reinforced during various periods in history, even during progressive eras such as the Enlightenment. The Enlightenment, a period in the history of 17th and 18th Century Europe which was marked by dedication to progressive reform, natural social hierarchies were reinforced; Europeans who were educated, white, and native-born were considered high-class and less-educated, non-European people were considered low-class.

The example of Tasmania is cited, where white settlers wiped out indigenous Tasmanians, an event which is genocide by definition as well as an event which is a result of settler colonialism. Additionally, instances of colonialism and genocide in California and Hispaniola are cited below. The instance in California references the colonization and genocide of indigenous tribes by euro-Americans during the gold rush period. The example in Hispaniola discusses the island's colonization by Columbus and other Spaniards along with the genocide inflicted on the native Taino people.

Researched examples of genocide linked to colonialism

 * Another example of colonialism and Genocide is the genocide which was committed against the Taino tribe on Hispaniola. after the arrival of Christopher Columbus and other Spanish colonizers. Columbus and his crew arrived on the island of Haiti in December 1492. Initially leaving 39 Spaniards behind, Columbus left and a year later, he returned with more Spaniards in order to complete his conquest of the Dominican Republic. There are no exact tallies of how many Taino people inhabited Hispaniola when Columbus arrived on it. However, it is estimated that the number of Taino people who lived on Hispaniola was at least hundreds of thousands and it may have been up to a million or more. However, During the 25 years when the Spanish colonized the islands of Hispaniola the Taino people were murdered, subjected to slavery, and by the year 1514, only 32,000 Taino people remained alive.


 * According to Jack Norton, a Hupa and Cherokee scholar, the colonization of California was attributed to Manifest Destiny, and ;the success of European colonizers in the West was attributed to the genocide of indigenous peoples. In a government-sponsored move to California, European colonizers emigrated west to further colonize the north American continent due to the discovery of gold in California. Upon arriving, Brendan Lindsay, an American behavioral scientist, notes that the euro-American group encountered nearly 150,000 indigenous tribes, and colonizers worked to drive them away, murdering them, or have them collected by militiamen or vigilante forces. As the gold rush ended and as , euro-American colonizers began to cultivate the land and create democracy in California , the treatment of indigenous tribes became much worse . The first California Governor, Peter H. Burnett, declared that a “war of extermination” should be waged against Indians, the war was recounted by numerous newspapers which were published at that time.