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Originally Posted by isaidso
You're reading a little more into that map that can be concluded. Low % indigenous isn't a direct gauge of how many indigenous people were wiped out. How many non-indigenous people migrated to and settled each jurisdiction is the far bigger indicator.
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In the case of the Cherokee Nation from the US southeast, their "migration" was forced (trail of tears), and is certainly a much more blatant and obvious form of lethal and deliberate ethnic cleansing than the residential schools up here ever were.