In view of President Barack Obama's belief, it would be honourable and proper for him to seek justice for the Indigenous Peoples of the United States, and all the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas, who have been, against impossible odds, and without much success, fighting for justice for themselves for centuries.

Tommy Douglas on Fascism: “Once more let me remind you what fascism is. It need not wear a brown shirt or a green shirt ­ it may even wear a dress shirt. Fascism begins the moment a ruling class, fearing the people may use their political democracy to gain economic democracy, begins to destroy political democracy in order to retain its power of exploitation and special privilege.”

(Thomas Clement "Tommy" Douglas, PC, CC, SOM (20 October 1904 – 24 February 1986) was a Scottish-born Baptist minister who became a prominent Canadian social democratic politician. As leader of the Saskatchewan Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) from 1942 and the seventh Premier of Saskatchewan from 1944 to 1961, he led the first socialist government in North America and introduced universal public healthcare to Canada. When the CCF united with the Canadian Labour Congress to form the New Democratic Party, he was elected as its first federal leader and served in that post from 1961 to 1971.)

UNITED NATIONS GENOCIDE CONVENTION:

The rational for inserting the Genocide Convention into this overview of the histories of various First Nations of the Americas at this stage is simple: I want readers, as they read about the horrors that our Peoples suffered since 1492, as they were brutally forced to live under the iron fist of the European invaders, to come back often and refresh their memory of what conduct is defined as Genocide. As you progress through the pages of my Website the logic of such placement will become crystal clear.

The cruel mistreatment of the First Nations Peoples of the Americas by the invaders from Europe was related to the evolutionary societal development of the European Continent. Greed, over the ages, became its top societal value, and its keystone motivator.

Under the system, the accumulation and protection of personal power and wealth by any means became top priority for individuals. Over time, the ruling class and wealthy that were created from such endeavours, to protect their privileged lifestyles, began the practice of using horrific terrorist methods to brutally force their own citizens to submit to their collective wills. I.e., the rack, burning at the stake, drawing and quartering, were some of the horrific devices and methods liberally employed. Harsh forms of government and religion were imposed upon their people, human and civil rights were not a consideration. It was not a good life for the oppressed citizens.

Thus, when an opportunity arose for Europe's oppressed to escape from their oppressors by emigrating to the America's, they left by the tens of thousands. Over a very short period of time they became the oppressors of the Indigenous Peoples of the two Continents. There is an old saying, "God help the oppressed when the oppressed become the oppressor." The ensuing barbaric conduct of the oppressed European invaders, which had no limits in the cruelty dispensed, proves the credence of the old proverb. Within a few centuries, tens of millions of Indigenous Peoples were dead, and not one Indigenous civilization of the Americas was left unharmed. In fact, several became extinct.

History relates, resulting from this ingrained desire to dominate by terror, and trying to accomodate their insatible desire to accumulate wealth and power, that British, Spanish, Canadian, and American Governments have, over the centuries, when mistreating North America's First Nations Peoples, violated every provision mentioned in Article 2 of the Genocide Convention. The same applies to the conduct of such countries as Spain and Portugal in South America, and the European dominated countries they created there.

The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment for the Crime of Genocide was adopted by the United Nations on December 9, 1948.

Article 2 of the Convention defines Genocide:

Genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

(A) Killing members of the group:
(B) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group:
(C) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part:
(D) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group:
(E) Forcefully transferring children of the group to another group:

Daniel N. Paul - June 20, 2008

A better understanding of the before mentioned can be had by reading: First Nations History - We Were Not the Savages - 2006 Edition
http://www.danielnpaul.com/WeWereNotTheSavages-Mi'kmaqHistory.html