Another take on Montezuma’s revenge. Europeans killed the natives with European diseases and the natives returned the favor with syphilis.
That means we are even, we can keep their land and name our football mascots after them. I call that a good day’s work.
My understanding was there was a fairly large “die off” in north america before columbus ever arrived. Archeologists are always coming up with “proof” that amerind culture was very advanced long before white man arrived and collapsed for unknown reasons.
I believe it was too much war that did them in.