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This Episode:
/u/Snapshot52 joins us to discuss the concept of cultural genocide in the context of the US government’s American Indian policy. In particular, we look at the creation and evolution of obligatory boarding schools for American Indian children. (75 min).
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Thanks so much to /u/Snapshot52 for joining us for this interesting episode!
Apologies to all for the delay in publishing the episode.
As a small aside, I couldn't remember the name during the episode, but the 17th century Spanish play I mention was Fuenteovejuna by Lope de Vega.
Hey! Thanks for having me on the podcast again. It was a lot of fun (despite the depressing topic). If anyone has any questions or wants some suggested reading, I'd be happy to provide an answer or suggestions.
I love these Native American podcasts!!! Is there any chance we can get a panel, discussion, or podcast of Native American nativist movements as seen in Neolin in Pontiacs rebellion or the Sioux Ghost Dance in the 1890s?
Many thanks for this truly enlightening episode, I could have listened to this for another 2-3. I hope more people get to know about this aspect of history (and present day).
Great episode /u/Snapshot52, I learned a lot. I'm very curious about the refutation of the Virgin Soil hypothesis. I've seen estimates as high as 90 percent of Native American populations dying due to disease. What are the current appropriate estimates? Are you suggesting that many of them that became sick died as a result of contributing factor (famine, drought, violence, slavery) and would have otherwise survived?
I'm really interested in this as the Virgin Soil hypothesis has always been a cozy way to reduce the effect of actions of European settlers (they didn't know how diseases worked, therefore most Native American deaths were not their fault).
Thanks for doing another episode, and please consider doing another sometime in the future!