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Genocide is a prominent obstruction to First nation and Aboriginal Culture. Throughout history it has proved to be a topic of terror and a harsh reality that no way of life should feel they must come to terms with. Rather, genocide is a repulsive divertissement that feeds the needs of the traditionalistic supremacist. These movements prey off of the fear that they acquire, and the terror that they procure. “The fact that we were unconsciously part of a plan to weaken and cross out the Indianness in you, to pattern your land with our grain and beets and corn and alfalfa now clearly hits me. It is like a blow to the gut to learn that the years spent on the reservation, the times wading in the Wind River, were not the free years of childhood, but the manipulations of a power hungry to exonerate itself, to free itself, to purge the treaties of any real meaning or responsibility. They stole from me my innocence, leaving me a co-conspirator, an enemy to the children I grew with ton the prairie, drove us apart when we could have and should have forged an alliance for our own survival. The force of this unremitting design has killed many of my friends and acquaintances and left me forever with a feeling of unintentional complicity and sadness.” (Wind River, Wunder) The obscene fact of the matter was that the hunted felt they were in the wrong. Through suppression and unconscious objectification they began to feel diseased, erroneous, and worthless. Whether it be secluded from society, killed openly, or robbed of simple human rights, it became evident that what was happening was wrong. The only way that these crimes were ever brought to light was when and if someone became proactive. The way to catch the public’s eye was not through ... ... middle of paper ... ...Centre. Peter Hinton, n.d. Web. 3 Apr. 2011. . Sharma, B.R.. "Cultural Preservation Reconsidered." Critique of Anthropology 19 (1999): 53 - 61 . College of Anthropology . Web. 2 Apr. 2011. Skloot, Robert . "Theatrical Images of Genocide." Human Rights Quarterly 12.2 (1990): 185 - 201 . Johns Hopkins University Press. Web. 5 Apr. 2011. Spears, Shandra. "Re-Constructing the Colonizer: Self-representation by First Nations Artists ." ATLANTIS 29.2 (2005): 1 - 18 . Print. Whittaker, Robin C.. "Fusing the Nuclear Community: Intercultural Memory, Hiroshima 1945 and the Chronotopic Dramaturgy of Marie Clements’s Burning Vision." Theatre Research in Canada 30.1 (2009): 129 - 151. Print. Wolfe, Patrick. "Settler colonialism and the elimination of the native." Journal of Genocide Research 8.4 (2006): 387 - 409 . Print.

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