Indigenous Knowledge of the Americas

The Genocide Record

The documented record for the Americas — compiled research, sourced throughout; never softened, never inflated beyond what the sources carry.

• Caribbean and ConquestHispaniola (present-day Haiti and the Dominican Republic) was the first site of sustained Spanish colonisation after 1492 and of the first catastrophic collapse.
• Demographic CollapsePublished hemispheric estimates have ranged from about 8 million to 112 million. That spread is the honest starting point.
• Disease and Intent — The Deliberate-Disease Question at Evidence LevelThis is the one colonial-era deliberate-infection episode supported by contemporaneous documents at every level: a trader's journal, an officer's certified account/invoice, and the commander-in-chief's correspondence. Th
• Framing and Findings — The Genocide RecordTwo elements matter for everything that follows in this record:
• Massacres and RemovalsAt the Moravian mission village of Gnadenhutten, Ohio Country, Pennsylvania militiamen under David Williamson killed 96 pacifist Moravian Christian Indians — primarily Lenape (Delaware) and Mohican — who had returned fro
• Schools — Residential Schools in Canada, Boarding Schools in the United StatesThe NCTR (University of Manitoba), created by the TRC to hold its archive, maintains the National Student Memorial Register under TRC Calls to Action 72–73.
• Sterilization and ChildrenWhat the GAO actually documented — the floor, not an estimate: