Well yes, the European, or American powers (a bit different for us, because we didn’t really give up any of our colonial conquests aside from the Philippines) would go take out the tribal leaders and most of the fighting men would be killed fighting our troops. Things were pretty stable until the western powers left, which resulted in a power vacuum leading to civil war and famine.
This made those places even worse off than they were before, because now you have thrown advanced weaponry into the mix. Not to mention the increased quality of life that the new infrastructure, which lead to population booms, and mass starvation. And the British government usually shit the bed in regards to handling those famines, so the blame can also be placed with them.
Yeah that’s what pisses me off the most. People think the Indian tribes here were peaceful, loving and tolerant. We get a crock of shit shoved down our throat in regards to the wars that happened. Atrocities committed by the Indians (and there were a lot) are never mentioned, and don’t bother to mention that 99% of their population was wiped out by disease hundreds of years before our country was even formed. Instead they say we “genocided them”.
