American Holocaust The Destruction of America s Native Peoples

Description: act of genocide in world history. A combination of atrocities and imported plagues resulted in the death of roughly 95 percent of the native population in the Americas. Stannard argues that the perpetrators of the American Holocaust operated from the same ideological source as the architects of the Nazi Holocaust. That ideology remains alive today in American foreign policy, Stannard avers. The 31st Annual Vanderbilt University Holocaust Lecture Series, the longest continuous Holocaust ...