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"On a warm Fall afternoon in 1915 in Syria, a Protestant missionary lifted a
five-year-old Armenian boy, Karnig Panian (1910-1989), onto a train headed to
Beirut. From there he was taken to a small village called Antoura, where a
boarding school had been established to transform Armenian and Kurdish children
into Turks. Panian’s family had been murdered over the previous months as part
of the World War One-era genocide of the Armenians of the Ottoman Empire. He
and a cousin were all that was left of his family, who had called Central the
cherry orchards and wheat fields of Central Anatolia home for millennia.
A Spring morning some 20 years later witnessed the forced removal of
five-year-old Adam Fortunate Eagle (Chippewa) following the death of his white
father, and several of his brothers and sisters from their Native American
mother’s home on the Red Lake Indian Reservation in northern Minnesota and
taken by car to the Pipestone Indian Training School where government
authorities would strip them of their cultural identity and forcibly assimilate
them to the dominant American culture.
What happened to these boys was not a coincidence – it was genocide, even as
they physically survived. I explore their shared experiences in a recent
article, “Kill the Armenian/Indian; Save the Turk/Man: Carceral
Humanitarianism, the Transfer of Children and a Comparative History of
Indigenous Genocide” for the
Journal of the Society of Armenian Studies."
Via Muse, who wrote "This is written by my cousin Keith David Watenpaugh.
Important article about cultural genocide."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
