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The destruction of cemeteries and heritage sites, and historic communities -- including the recent decision to take off the strip-mine-threatened Blair Mountain in West Virginia from the National Registry due to regulatory procedures -- is part of a process of what some academic observers call "historicide," the eradication of people from history, or at least killing their presence in history.
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As the forced removal of citizens from Twilight and Lindytown in West Virginia and scores of historic coal-rich settlements across Appalachia and the nation testify -- -as the largest forced removal of American citizens since the mid-19th century -- McCoy's charges of historicide and oblivion can be verified by the ruins of razed and abandoned communities.
Jeff Biggers: Blair Mountain Emergency: Obama Is Obliged by Deathtoll to Order Mountaintop Removal Moratorium Jeff Biggers 2011
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As the forced removal of citizens from Twilight and Lindytown in West Virginia and scores of historic coal-rich settlements across Appalachia and the nation testify -- -as the largest forced removal of American citizens since the mid-19th century -- McCoy's charges of historicide and oblivion can be verified by the ruins of razed and abandoned communities.
Jeff Biggers: Blair Mountain Emergency: Obama Is Obliged by Deathtoll to Order Mountaintop Removal Moratorium Jeff Biggers 2011
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As Arizona's immigration soap opera plays out in the national headlines this week, this will only be another battle in the 200-year culture war over who will be the gatekeeper of the American Dream in Arizona -- and whether or not the implicit historicide of state's past will be in full view for those who care to take a deeper look.
Jeff Biggers: Dear Gov. Jan Brewer: Wax On, Wax Off, Or, Welcome to Arizona, Now Go Home 2010
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Mired in the acrobatics of regulatory doublespeak, the Obama administration's increasing oversight of the unbearable daily toll on Appalachian coalfield residents from mountaintop removal begs the question: Are Obama's well-meaning but irresolute environmental administrators abetting the crimes of human rights violations and historicide?
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Sixty years later, the tragic legacy of our coal miners in southern Illinois remains a bitter testament to historicide-the murder of our history and its lessons, and the removal of our coal miners 'sacrifice from American history.
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American Dream in Arizona-and whether or not the implicit historicide of state's past will be in full view for those who care to take a deeper look.
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It results in a form of historical ethnic cleansing or historicide-the killing or removal of people from their histories, relegating them to the scrap pile of a vanished past.
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It results in a form of historical ethnic cleansing or historicide-the killing or removal of people from their histories, relegating them to the scrap pile of a vanished past.
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American Dream in Arizona-and whether or not the implicit historicide of state's past will be in full view for those who care to take a deeper look.
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