and I say that while it might have been just shy of out and out genocide, it was VERY close to crossing that line. While the Native Americans did wipe out other tribes from time to time, as did Europeans, and Asians, they also had large trading nations, raided other neighboring tribes not only for slaves, but also for breeding purposes to keep the invading tribe from becoming too inbred, and on and on, much like "modern" civilizations of the time. However, settlers from Europe came, saw these "savages" (they must be savages since they were not Christian), and saw the land that they had, and coveted that land. Therefore, many, a vast majority of early settlers (and their governments) saw it as being perfectly moral to steal the land through false treaties, and to kill the Indian, because they were "subhuman" and non-Christians, therefore not truly civilized peoples whose lives were valued, just as the Nazis viewed Jews. Was the genocide as well organized, or on as large a scale as the Holocaust, certainly not, but it was an attempt, at least under the surface of polite civility, to eradicate the colonies (and the west) of a subhuman race, who were given two choices, convert and submit, or die. It doesn't take much more to cross the line to the definition of genocide from there.
