During my high school history classes, I learned of the atrocities committed against Native American tribes, but never to the extent of what I learned during Professor Cheyfitz’s talk. Professor Cheyfitz opened my eyes to the amount of discrimination Native Americans faced both in the past and even today. I thought it was really interesting how Professor Cheyfitz defined genocide. It is not just the killing of a large group of people, but also as the deliberate wiping out of the culture and way of life of these people. For example, Professor Cheyfitz talked about the deliberate attempts to “westernize” Native Americans by sticking needles through the tribal members’ tongues if they spoke in their native language instead of English; he classified this as genocide. He also talked about genocide as full wars to wipe out the Native American race as genocide. Professor Cheyfitz also talked about how the government withheld smallpox medicine from the Native Americans and classified this as another form of genocide. Professor Cheyfitz’s talk was not only eye-opening into the atrocities faced by Native Americans, but also brings up a very interesting definition of genocide.