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Genocide (jen’ə sīd’), n. the deliberate and systematic elimination of a national or racial group. The attempt to eradicate a people or a culture from antiquity to the present. Historically, genocide has taken three forms—physical, biological, or cultural—usually, with some exceptions, functioning in conjunction with one another.

In Memoriam

This book is dedicated to the memory of indigenous peoples who did survive, as well as those who did not, the devastation and massacres of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.