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Denial of atrocities against Indigenous peoples are present or historical claims made by public figures, organizations or states that deny any of the multiple atrocities committed against Indigenous peoples when academic consensus or present state policy that acknowledges that such crimes occurred.[1][2][3][4] The atrocities include genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and ethnic cleansing.[5][6][7][8][9] Denial may be the result of the Indigenous peoples' minority status, social segregation, low population size and lack of visibility. Further factors include marginalization, the lack of political representation, and lower economic or social status.[10]
During the age of modern colonization many empires colonized territories that were inhabited by the Indigenous peoples. In most cases, the new polities included the surviving Indigenous peoples within their new political borders.[11][12][13][14] In the process of expanding their frontier, there were a number of atrocities committed against Indigenous nations.[15][16][17][4] While Indigenous scholars have been doing so since these events occurred, non-Indigenous scholars are now increasingly examining the impact of settler colonialism and internal colonialism from the perspective of Indigenous peoples.[18][19][20][21][22][4][23][24][25] The atrocities against Indigenous peoples include forced displacement, exile, introduction of new diseases, forced containment in reservations, forced assimilation, forced labour, criminalization, dispossession, land theft, compulsory sterilization, forcibly transferring children of the group to another group, separating children from their families, enslavement, captivity, massacres, forced religious conversion, cultural genocide and reduction of means of subsistence and subsequent starvation.[26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35]