indigenocide means The systematic or targeted destruction of the indigenous people(s) of a place, especially Australia. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 88 out of 100.
Why this word is great
INDIGENOCIDE — [Noun] The systematic, targeted destruction of the indigenous people(s) of a place, particularly as the foundational logic in settler-colonial contexts. From indigenous ("native, born in a country") + -o- (connecting vowel) + -cide ("killing, slayer"), it telescopes colonial ambition into a terminal fact. Unlike genocide, a broader categorical horror, or colonialism, a system of political control, indigenocide names the specific terminus of a settler project: the calibrated erasure of first peoples from their own earth. It is the frontier massacre rationalized as dispersal, the child removed under policy, and the sacred site bulldozed for a mine—a quiet, administrative violence that leaves only the ghost-geography of names and the profound silence of a story severed at the root.
noun
- The systematic or targeted destruction of the indigenous people(s) of a place, especially Australia.