I could see that the white man did not care about each other the way our people did.

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150. Genocide of Native Americans in N. A. through conquest and disease

took place alongside European measures 1500s-1700s to send Native Americans, Africans, Scots, Irish from British Isles to the Caribbean and SA as slave labor and to 'transport', get them out of the way. Pequot Native Americans of NE who survived smallpox and fought Prince Phillips War with the English and Dutch were sold as slaves, shipped to Bermuda where a small group still exists today. Natchez people of Louisiana were attacked and had lands taken, some were sent to the West Indies as slave labor.

In Carib. islands today, notably Barbados, there's a small number of poor whites living mostly in obscurity and poverty for generations, unknown even to modern tourists. The Redlegs of Barbados, descendants of ancestors shipped or transported from Ireland and Scotland as POWs and undesirables during mid-1600s wars of English aggression particularly under Cromwell. Redlegs toiled in brutal conditions as indentured servants in sugar cane fields like African slaves, Native Americans also in forced labor to the planter class in the sugar and rum business.

West Indies colonies run by France, Spain, Holland, even Portuguese Brazil profited heavily from the free slave labor system and Atlantic Slave Trade like northern enterprises from Florida to New York. Families were interconnected in business, investments; sons sent to West Indies and South Carolina plantations, relatives managed operations in London, Bristol, Bordeaux, Providence and New York. Families who profited still exist on both sides of the Atlantic, in Rhode Island, South Carolina, Latin America, England, France and Spain etc.

Many Redlegs don't know their history, family beyond recent generations, whether they originate from Ireland or Scotland. Sinclair and Bailey names suggest Scottish connections. Not owning land and marginalized, status declined from lack of economic opportunity and education, isolation, poor health and disease. Most have never left the C. islands. UK has denied them immigration and citizenship I've read.
Learned of Redlegs 1995 visiting a Bajan historic site with a photograph c. 1915 of white men outdoors, in ordinary clothes, others in crude, burlap tunics, barefoot- labeled 'the Redlegs'. I saw info. about them online years later, good 1 hour BBC (Scotland) narrative film, c. 2009.
Circumstances resemble most disadvantaged US communities, Appalach., Deep South, Native Americans in Pine Ridge, S. Dakota, Camden, NJ, Detroit, former high industry/factory cities. My family (not Scots-Irish) & friends include Hispanics, blacks, whites, Indians, Asians. At least one ancestor was a 1600s indentured servant. Planned to explore a family genie connection in B. but no time. PBS's excellent program "Finding Your Roots" with Prof. H.L. 'Skip' Gates is great; guests surprised by new ancestors, international roots.

Indigenous hunter gatherer culture in the Americans you wrote of I knew about; forgot the significance of guns; I wasn't aware of the extent of aboriginal genocide in Australia you mentioned.
The global, free market economic/political system of 40 years recalls some of the earlier area, esp. the topic of two articles NOW ON DU- illegal use of imported Indian workers in Silicon Valley's tech industry paid $1.21 an hour, placed in crowded housing. Common factor is human nature and greed. Lately I think of Ted Kennedy's infamous speech to the Senate, "When does the greed end?'. Appreciate your reply; agree that values inherent in Native American culture lacked European greed and consumption; matters are more about values than race.