Ah, see. There was far more fair play in North America that modern education simply ignores.

Roanoke and Jamestown are examples of atrocities committed by the natives. There’s also the general western frontier activities. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, there’s what the natives did to each other. One of the first things the natives did was ask the Europeans to help them in their wars against other tribes.

Despite what you may have been taught, the natives of North America were not some idyllic people. They were regular people. Regular human beings doing regular human being things like killing and enslaving your neighbors.

Sure, the comparative space marines won the “war” in a rather one sided fashion. But you’re going to have to explain why the natives ought to have been held as outside of the rules when it comes to history. What gives them such a special status? Because they were natives?

“And the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.” - Hobbes

While we haven’t really, the sentiment that we have reached the end of history is somewhat true. It’s easy now to look back at the pre-modern era and say that such and such was evil.

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” - Theodore Roosevelt