@article{728663,
      recid = {728663},
      author = {Anderson, Gary Clayton,},
      title = {Ethnic cleansing and the Indian the crime that should  haunt America / [electronic resource] :},
      pages = {1 online resource (ix, 462 pages)},
      abstract = {"In Ethnic Cleansing and the Indian, Anderson uses ethnic  cleansing as an analytical tool to challenge the alluring  idea that Anglo-American colonialism in the New World  constituted genocide. Beginning with the era of European  conquest, Anderson employs definitions of ethnic cleansing  developed by the United Nations and the International  Criminal Court to reassess key moments in the  Anglo-American dispossession of American Indians.  Euro-Americans' extensive use of violence against Native  peoples is well documented. Yet Anderson argues that the  inevitable goal of colonialism and U.S. Indian policy was  not to exterminate a population, but to obtain land and  resources from the Native peoples recognized as having  legitimate possession. The clashes between Indians,  settlers, and colonial and U.S. governments, and subsequent  dispossession and forcible migration of Natives, fit the  modern definition of ethnic cleansing. To support the case  for ethnic cleansing over genocide, Anderson begins with  English conquerors' desire to push Native peoples to the  margin of settlement, a violent project restrained by the  Enlightenment belief that all humans possess a "natural  right" to life. Ethnic cleansing comes into greater  analytical focus as Anderson engages every major period of  British and U.S. Indian policy, especially armed conflict  on the American frontier where government soldiers and  citizen militias alike committed acts that would be  considered war crimes today. Drawing on a lifetime of  research and thought about U.S.-Indian relations, Anderson  analyzes the Jacksonian "Removal" policy, the gold rush in  California, the dispossession of Oregon Natives, boarding  schools and other "benevolent" forms of ethnic cleansing,  and land allotment. Although not amounting to genocide,  ethnic cleansing nevertheless encompassed a host of actions  that would be deemed criminal today, all of which had  long-lasting consequences for Native peoples." --  Publisher's description.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/728663},
}