You can start the journey of learning the truth here. There are lots of sources of info ( if you ignore Canada/ USAs own accounts in some instances because of whitewashing history) . Also the churches reporting many died of germs from early settlers is a fake after take, because in that era they had no concept of germ theory, that discovery came later.

[–] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You mean the diseases they intentionally spread as part of their settler colonialist genocide?

[–] snowraven@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's very less evidence to support that. I can only recall one incident where a blanket infected with small pox was handed out to a tribe and the officer who did that was later severely reprimanded.

But anyhow, I am not trying to downplay the ill intent of European settlers, I will just quote this here "history is written by victors". The blanket incident is all I recall about deliberate disease spreading. who really knows? How many hundreds of such incidents went unreported?

[–] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml -4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I took a course about it back in high school, they literally wrote about how they were going to spread infected blankets to wipe out the indigenous population. But you're white so that means your genocide denying hipfires are more accurate than actually educated facts on the matter, so excuse me for thinking I knew what I was talking about.