The Trail of Tears: Genocide on America’s Homeland
After World War II, the Genocide Convention laid out a legal framework for how we should define genocide. Many believe genocide is only the outright killing of a people, but the legal definition includes the theft of a culture or people being forcibly removed from their homes. The Trail of Tears is known to be one of the most heinous campaigns of legal injustice and violence against Native peoples, where thousands of innocents died.
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