You make it sound very passive, as if the native population in the US just up and died. In California, they were paying a bounty for each native scalp collected

You make it sound very passive, as if the native population in the US just up and died. In California, they were paying a bounty for each native scalp collected: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2008/8/14/567667/- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2008/8/14/567667/-