While most of the Indians who died, died of disease, it is a fact that the Massachusetts and Maine colony legislatures voted to pay a bounty for Indian scalps, a higher price for men’s scalps, a lower price for women’s and children’s, in order to kill off or drive away the tribes who kept making raids on the towns. This is genocide even if it was a local and time-limited genocide, even if it was a response to attacks.
The Great Migration, of Puritans to New England, was between 1620 and the early 1640s. Nearly all of my New England ancestors arrived then, not later, and they multiplied. Northern New England was mostly settled by Great Migration Puritans. The natural increase was greater in the 1700s, the 1600s being hard times, what with hunger, Indian attacks, and disease (from being hungry, and crowded in fortified towns to escape Indian attacks.) Immigration stayed relatively low until the 1800s.
Hanta virus: carried by rodents. Europeans aren’t immune. If it was a New World plague, the Indians ought to have had better immunity than the Europeans. My vote is for Old World diseases, small pox, measles, influenza, etc.
Either way, I’m not consumed by white guilt or victor’s guilt or better immunity guilt.
The New Englanders come up short of that on any fair analysis of the situation.
In reality, the winters of 1646 and 1647 left European settlers in 1648 in the cat bird's seat ~ the Indians died of disease, as did many of the Europeans.
The Indians had no great reservoir of Indians to draw on to replenish their numbers. The Europeans brought in more Europeans.
It's noteworthy that the 300+year war between the Iroquois and the Mohicans (over the fur trade) ENDED. The Mohican residual were adopted by the Oneida, as were later on many of the Brotherton Indians (Europeanized Christian Indians from throughout New England and Lower New York).
By 1676 ~ a propitious date, Indians in New England had lost all political power and the smart ones were leaving the area.
The only Indians with any authority in the East turned out to be the Iroquois, and it wasn't until 1831 that the Europeans (now called Americans) broke their economic structure by turning the Oneida lands over to recent illegal aliens.