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You sound like a leftist here. The Indians were fighting each other well before we came. Thier constant reading of American towns, led to a great anger against them.

No I don't. Yes the Indians were fighting each other but in what world is it just to come in, slaughter people, steal their land and confine them to concentration camps? The Plains Indians were not constantly raiding American towns either. Do you know how many treaties the federal government made and broke with various tribes? The Leviathan in Washington has long cared about nothing but enhancing its own power.

Your view of the American Indian at least as how you expressed it is still naive. They were a neolithic people who surprisingly enough behaved neolithically. They had no special corner of the market on morality in how they interacted with peoples outside of their particular ‘people’. If in certain competition with others firm friendship was called for, they did that. If continuous war and even genocide they did that. If conditions changed and a problem developed with the firm friendship case. The solution was such that massacre and genocide solved the problem they did that! In short, they behaved just like any other group of humans did in those situations. Archaeology of neolithic Europe, Asia and Africa show many examples. In the case of North\South America they ran into competitors who were somewhat more advanced technologically. More importantly thanks to the contiguous Eurasian landmass Europeans had a better tested immune system. That lessor immune system the natives here had due to their splendid isolation all of a sudden that isolation wasn't so splendid. Accidental biowarfare was truly how the West was won from sea to shining sea. It wouldn't have mattered when we palefaces had arrived blowing kisses and throwing skittles the result would have been the same. Of course, it's more socially & politically popular to wallow in self-guilt about being on the surviving side. It had to be done immorally right? We shouldn't be here!