The Geneva Convention defines genocide as “…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) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.”

It’s that last one that has been a chronic issue in the US for decades.  Up to a third of Native children were removed from their homes in some areas in recent years.  Now comes a rare victory in South Dakota:

Federal Judge Says South Dakota Officials Violated Native American Families’ Rights