Originally Posted by DukeWill
It is sickening how they were treated.

'Sickening' is very much on target -- European diseases killed way more Native Americans than bullets ever did. To some degree, the white folks filled a vacuum left by so many NA dying and leaving large areas under-populated.

Note that old Cortez was chased out of Mexico the first time he invaded. The next year, half the Aztecs had died from the diseases his troops had carried and he had little problem subduing the rest.

At least they got back at us some by sending syphilis back to Europe, circa 1493.