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If the Native American Indians had done a better job of defending their land from white Europeans; would they, too, be considered genocidal racists?
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Genocide literally means systematically trying to destroy a group. I highly doubt the Native Americans would have been viewed as such seeing as they were almost entirely trying to retain their land and way of life. Only after it became clear that the only way that could happen is by going to war against the European Americans did any systematic effort begin and even then there was no intent to destroy the group beyond what was needed to retain their status quo.