Not only that. The native Americans were slaughtered, raped, and nearly wiped out by the Spanish, long before the pilgrims landed. They should be grateful North America was conquered by the English speaking people, or they would be a bunch of scraggly wetbacks trekking through a hot, dry border instead of fat lazy bums living off their casinos.
Wow, pretty harsh don't you think?
"Not only that. The native Americans were slaughtered, raped, and nearly wiped out by the Spanish, long before the pilgrims landed", Then the Democrats tried to do them in. Look up trail of tears. and whose idea was that?
Old World disease wiped out the Indians. For the most part if every Spaniard in the Americas from 1492 to 1550 had stood shoulder to shoulder and begun slaughtering Indians marching toward them, they'd never have run out of Indians.
There are some very good books on the arrival of the Spanish. One is called The Conquest of Peru and Mexico. Originally in Spanish and French, it was translated into English over a century ago. It's written against a background of primary and secondary records ~ not just third party opinions. I've found it to be a very good genealogical source as well.
I'd like to note here that the Indians would have eventually been wiped out by those very same diseases even if they'd been technologically superior to the Europeans they encountered, and had conquered the Old World.
We'd be telling a history about how they spilled out of the Americas and created havoc in Europe, but then one day they just died (which is how we came to take over their homeland).
And before that, the Indians were doing the same thing to each other.