Well, putting aside the ease with which you deflect an prolonged episode of systematic repression based on ethnicity, did you look at the map? The scale of the

Well, putting aside the ease with which you deflect an prolonged episode of systematic repression based on ethnicity, did you look at the map? The scale of the forced displacements is literately continent scale! Its probably the biggest settler colonization in history. Compare with the colonization of South America, where the Spaniards aimed to use the existing population for labour, and thus gave them some rights and allowed them stay. Or Africa, where the Colonial powers basically conquered for labor and not for land to settle. I don't know that the pattern of forced displacement has ever occurred on this scale, and with so high compression. Usually when people are forced from their lands, there are some crappier lands somewhere else they go to. From the map this obviously was not what happened. The tribes where forced into extremely small areas over the course of just a hundred years.