Canadian genocide of Indigenous peoples

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Throughout the history of Canada, the Canadian government, its colonial predecessors, and European settlers perpetrated systematic violence against Indigenous peoples that increasingly has been described as genocide and cultural genocide. The treatment has also been described as ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity. These collective actions included forced displacement, land dispossession, medical segregation, deliberate starvation policies, nutrition experiments, physical violence, and compulsory cultural assimilation programs. Canada is a settler-colonial nation whose initial economy relied on farming and exporting natural resources like fur, fish, and lumber. European Canadians initially had peaceful treaties with First Nations and Inuit, but these changed to dispossession treaties, and forced assimilation, emphasizing European values like Christianity, farming, and education. The Canadian government implemented policies such as the Indian Act, internal passports and residential...

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