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Was it? The first European settlers found native villages that were surrounded by palisades. There was plenty of conflict before the Europeans got there.
If you look at the various conflicts between 1600 and 1900 or so, you'll see it's always some European group with a list of Native groups supporting them vs. some other European group with their own different set of Native groups.
Are you saying some tribes having a fight over some land is similar to the genocide?
Of course not. In the same sense that you were not romanticizing the war between empires. The Incas for example were able to dominate a lot of land. The greed was there. To understand we are humans, we need to admit even the parts that put us to shame. Only from recognizing shortcomings we can build something better. And it's not like humans are always greedy, survival of the strongest, yada yada. That's an oversimplification that some build over this fact (it's their agenda.), that we are not perfect. But it's not an essentialism, we can be better.
Anyway, sorry I ended up ranting off topic. Glad to share.