>>20722084>Don’t forget they were wiped out by infectious diseases spread after early contact with Europeans.The disease aspect is highly exaggerated to exonerate the colonizers from genocide.
Native civilizations would have recovered from disease, just like europeans recovered from the black plague. But the war of conquest, and exploitation on top of the disease finished them off. The europeans genocided them. no way around it. No "oops we didn't mean to."
