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I thought the indians did teach colonists how to grow crops like corn and often shared food with them. But then large amounts of Indians would die from a plague every time the colonists visited (disease moment), and then they became suspicious that they were purposefully killing them. And then the colonists grew suspicious that the Indians were planning on killing them and then they all killed each other. Except the colonists had guns and so they won.
This is a revisionist lie taught in American schools as genocide denial, there was no unhappy accident that led to an "unfortunate misunderstanding" between the natives and the settlers, the settlers understood from the moment they landed that this was someone else's country and their only possible route of expansion was to remove these people
long extract from the first chapter of Settlers
Plus hundreds of treaties saying "OK we gonna occupy only up to this line but no more pinky promise, just stop raiding us and we'll all get along in peace UwU" that were systematically broken by the same crakkkers that imposed them in order to stiffle the natives from full on war
Reminds me of something messed up I once read where native Americans who had tentatively been 'accepted', who chose to try and live like crakkkers and even fought other native Americans and were given some place to live ended up finding the acceptance they thought they'd achieved disregarded by crakkker settlers eventually and hunted down and murdered, the supposed protection they were promised nothing more than empty promises.
That's what you get for being a Malinche