Native Gandoorese genocide

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The Native Gandoorese genocide (also referred to by other terminology, see below) refers to the attempted extermination of Native Gandoorese and their cultures via both deliberate killings and the forced assimilation into the Anglo-Gandoorese culture and via the spread of Old World diseases that the Native Gandoorese lacked natural immunity to. During the nearly 300 years that the genocide occurred, the population of Native Gandoorese dropped from an estimated 35-50 million before European contact to around 2.3 million in 1903.

Terminology

The term 'Native Gandoorese genocide' was coined by Penki historian Adam Miwaywi, who used it in the title of his 1959 work On the Native Gandoorese Genocide and the Attempted Extermination of the Indigenous People of Gandoor, in which he argued that although the extermination of Native Gandoorese occurred long before the word 'genocide' was coined by Raphael Lemkin in 1944 and before the definition of genocide was written in the Genocide Convention in 1948, they still met the definition of a genocide and should be considered as such.

The referring to this attempted extermination as a genocide spread from Native Gandoorese scholars and historians to non-Native scholars and historians during the 1960s and knowledge and usage of the term 'genocide' began spreading to the wider public during the 1970s and 1980s. In 1974, Prime Minister Naoki Nakasone used the term 'genocide' in a speech he gave to the Forum, saying 'The reality of the matter is that any other terms we use to refer to the crimes committed against the native peoples of Gandoor, even ones as charged as "extermination" or "mass murder", do not reflect the reality of what was happening. The Nzardom of Gandoor was attempting a slow and gradual genocide of the native peoples. There can be no denying of this fact. It was a genocide much in the same way that the attempted extermination of the European Jews by Nazi Germany was a genocide.'

By the early 1990s, 'Native Gandoorese genocide' had become the dominant term that was used to refer to the attempted extermination of the Native Gandoorese, displacing the following terms which had previously seen common usage:

  • Extermination of the Native Gandoorese (the most common terminology before 'Native Gandoorese genocide')
  • Indigenous Gandoorese mass murders
  • Destruction of the Indigenous
  • Native Gandoorese killings