# Denial of Native Americans and Native Australians by analysts

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [August 14, 2014, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/denial-of-native-americans-and-native-australians-by-analysts/695544 "2014-08-14T20:36:57Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 25, 2014, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/denial-of-native-americans-and-native-australians-by-analysts/695544/61 "2014-08-25T01:11:06Z")

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> [@Melbourne](#):
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> I was addressing the idea, in the post I responded too, that they were all naked and nomadic.
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> The idea that ‘the aboriginals’ were going to die out anyway, in the face of a ‘stronger’ culture, is very unpopular in Australia at present, and many people would find the suggestion more offensive than any discussion of genocide. Not least because it sometimes includes arguably false assertions, and often includes non sequiturs.

Wasn’t that the theory in the 19th and (first half of the)20th centuries - establish reserves to “smooth the pillow of the dying race” whilst taking the children off to institutions? They were all meant to die out and stop being a problem.

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