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Not all you say is correct here. The Aztecs, for example, had a SINGLE, WEEK-LONG sacrifice to dedicate a temple that killed 80,000---more people, per capita, per minute, than occurred in some of the Nazi death camps.

The "Mourning Wars" involved northern tribes that abducted children of other tribes to raise them as their own, and when pursued, they left a head on a stick every mile to taunt their pursuers.

Moreover, there are two new books out saying that essentially the Plains Indians destroyed much of the bison population long before "Buffalo Bill." As to the diseases, the numbers are shifting all the time: whereas only 20 years ago anthropologists were thinking there were 100 million Indians in North and Central America, now the UPPER-BOUND number is only 50 million, and some put it as low as 8 million. What all this means is that notions that European diseases killed 50 million Indians are baseless.

And just this week, there was even NEWER evidence that many diseases are being discovered in the pre-Columbian bones, meaning that the Indians already HAD these diseases.

Speaking of Aztecs, it is a little-known fact today that Cortez and his little band of 300-400 Spanish mercenaries DID NOT conquer the Aztecs all by themselves. Cortez battled with the Aztecs for nearly 3 years, and finally defeated their army with the aid of more than 30,000 non-Aztec Indians, who felt that they were finally “liberated” by the Spanish. At last, they were out from under the control of the hostile Aztecs. Aztecs were the Nazis of the Western Hemisphere before Cortez arrived.

The anthropology and historical books I’ve read recently say there were less than 2,000,000 Indians in the area of the US when Columbus arrived. This figure is based on archaeological investigations and study of historical books written by the early explorers.

There were more in Mexico and Central America, but not so many in the US or in Canada.

America’s current largest tribe, the Navajo, barely had 7,000 tribal members in the 1860s, which was an all-time historic high for that tribe, before the reservation system began. Now there are nearly half a million of them.