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Originally Posted by Praxeas
Genocide is a systematic slaughtering of a race.
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King Phillip's War, which correctly should be called the Puritan's War, was fought over the Puritans cheating the Wampanoag tribe. It left the Wampanoag tribe with no choice but to fight against an oppressor. 30,000 of any race of people reduced to 2,000 is considered genocide.
The 30,000 wasn't reduced to 2,000 only because of the two year war, but due to the Puritans slaughtering the Wampanoag until their numbers dwindled to a ragged people. By the way, they just didn't pike King Phillip's head, they sold his wife and children into slavery.
What happened to one tribe may not have been based on the attempt to slaughter them because they wanted to kill all Indians. Read the history and you'll see there was growing strife between various tribes AND the Pilgrims.
The U.N. General Assembly adopted this term of genocide and defended it in 1946 as "
....a denial of the right of existence of entire human groups."
The Pequot and Wampanoag were denied their right of existence.
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Originally Posted by Praxeas
It was a war and in wars often one side loses
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And the ones who win get to write the history and teach it to all the generations who succeed them.
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The Pilgrims did not wear buckles.
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Levity? So you are looking for historic accuracy in my sarcasm?
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