The US and Canada probably killed more people than the Axis Powers. Estimates of 100 million Native Americans living in North America reduced to a few thousand. It just took longer than what the nazis did in a decade because they didn't have industrial murder factories to do it. Instead, they paid bounties for scalps. Entire tribes eradicated by having their hair scrapped from their skulls and turned in for money.
Nazis would have killed more than 100 million if they weren't stopped. I only point this out to illustrate how apocalyptic the white man's arrival was for indigenous people. In either case, it was done to create wealth for the in-group at the expense of the out-group.
The US and Canada probably killed more people than the Axis Powers. Estimates of 100 million Native Americans living in North America reduced to a few thousand. It just took longer than what the nazis did in a decade because they didn't have industrial murder factories to do it. Instead, they paid bounties for scalps. Entire tribes eradicated by having their hair scrapped from their skulls and turned in for money.
Nazis would have killed more than 100 million if they weren't stopped. I only point this out to illustrate how apocalyptic the white man's arrival was for indigenous people. In either case, it was done to create wealth for the in-group at the expense of the out-group.