Not saying that you're wrong -- would you include the US eugenics programs [1] or the Australian forced adoptions [2] in that?
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics_in_the_United_States
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics_in_the_United_States
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Indian_residential_sc...
EDIT: and good on you for honouring her.
I'm sure I didn't hear that 'other' side of the story, but it's pretty clear what was happening - taking kids away from their traditional families and putting them into American style education is a softer form of cultural destruction. I also spoke with his former students who had moved to the big city (think 3,000 people), and the city itself is mostly a mix of native, old russian and americans.
In some ways their lifestyle was the same, their income was still fishing but they were living in a mostly normal American town - aside from the fact it was in the middle of no where and there were more boats and than cars in the city.
I'd like to go back up there, everything I have learned about tlinget and the people I spent time with was a really interesting and awesome opportunity.
Similar things happened to the scotts when scottish gaelic stopped being taught in school and was transferred to English. Now of course almost everyone in Scotland besides the Outer Hebrides speaks English.
In many ways the Tlinget I met in SE Alaska were aware of what was going on and there was a lot of cultural preservation and focus on their language and traditional lifestyle, but again what else would you expect when you talk to people who work at the local cultural center? It's hard to say what the 'average' Tlinget experience is and since it's pretty sparse up there, experiences vary wildly.
Anyway - Go to Sitka, AK, it's beautiful!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Indian_boarding_schoo...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlisle_Indian_Industrial_S...
(I don't know much about the Australian example, so won't comment on that, other than to say that a cursory search that seems to also imply UM YES)
> The compulsory sterilization of American men and women continues to this day. In 2013, it was reported that 148 female prisoners in two California prisons were sterilized between 2006 and 2010 in a supposedly voluntary program, but it was determined that the prisoners did not give consent to the procedures. > http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alex-stern/sterilization-calif...
It was banned in 2014 at least. But 2013 is contemporary enough.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/9/15/21437805/w...
I guess there can be some room for discussion about whether it is genocide if there is not a clear target group/culture.
Doesn't make it less heinous, just a different sort of heinous.
And it very much is a failure of government if an individual is systematically abusing people that are in government custody.
A failure of government ≠ intent, which is what I indicated with my use of the word machinations.
And I wasn't arguing that there was intent, I was arguing that intent isn't the standard that we should use to judge governance.
Article II of the Convention 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:
(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated
to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.