In Reply to: Well, it's not a race to see who did it the most and it's a posted by HasBen on November 18, 2024 at 12:23:26
Destroying their food sources, moving them off their lands, and plain old murders and mass killing. Famine and murder decimated the populations and destroyed their societies. Contact with Europeans would inevitably lead to mass death through contagion, whether intentional or callous.
The lack of documentation shouldn’t be a surprise. Genocides often don’t leave any clear record. Armenia and Aktion Reinhard good examples.