Somehow, I don’t think many native peoples would ind that thought comforting.
I’m sure it’s not the intent of your post, but reducing the genocide of N American peoples to germs dismisses the fact that their slaughter was intentional, protracted and methodical. It spanned hundreds of years, half a dozen colonizing nations, numerous governments both remote and local as well as countless examples of direct action by individuals. Ecological destruction, whatever the word is for breaking up families to have the brown forcibly bred out of them, outright slaughter, displacement and, yes, germ warfare were all used very consciously and with intent.
