Funny how we still have plenty of Native Americans still with us. If it was genocide not so much!I thought this statement to be extremely ignorant.
It appears that according to the responder, an act of genocide will only be considered genocide once a significant portion of the population has been wiped out, such as the Jewish population targeted in Nazi occupied Poland. The responder apparently believes that Native Americans are still plentiful. Considering information obtained from the last census, Native Americans, who were once the dominant people of this continent, have been usurped by Americans, with Native Americans making up roughly 1% of the population of the United States. The land of those people had been taken by the government and is currently administered by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Here is a map of the reservations, as well as some statistics:
Here is an interesting website giving a time line surrounding events involving Native Americans.
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