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most natives died before they saw a single white man due to diseases that their underdeveloped immune system couldn't handle.
>but muh pox blankets
first of all, germ theory didn't exist back then so they couldn't possibly wage biological warfare in such a way even if they wanted to. and secondly, the only source of this theory comes from the private messaging of two random dudes from that era, who were trying to figure out why were native dropping like flies and one of them suggested that it might have something to do with trading blankies with them. that's it. injuns died from diseases that whites didn't even notice because it was like catching the cold for them, while it was super deadly to redskins.
also, whites were always trying to get along with them, they were willing to integrate them into their own society and they've spent decades trying to come up with a solution to dissolve the cultural barriers between the two races. and what was the injuns' response? mass murder. countless missionaries and teachers got tortured to death for trying to civilize them, they themselves never even tried to reach out and find common ground.
one side tried to figure out a way to coexist, the other killed women and children and wore their mutilated body parts as war trophies. it speaks volumes of the white man's patience and benevolence that they didn't outright exterminate them on the spot after encountering barbarism of that magnitude. mind you, injun tribes regularly genocided each other, mass extermination was the rule of the land before whites showed up. when two tribes went to war with each other, the beaten tribe was either exterminated to the last baby or they were enslaved and raped to death.
fuck them, they deserved everything whites dished out.