Loki vs . Baron Mordo ? <| sep |> Well the genocide didn ' t happen . Virtually all the deaths were from disease . Were there murders , wars , slaughters and broken treaties ? Yes . But the idea the settlers went around systematically killing natives is downright false , for the majority of the time they didn ' t have the numbers to pull this off and by the time they did , the natives were almost entirely wiped out . The closest thing to genocide you can find in the Trail of Tears , but that was a forced removal and not aimed at extermination so it wasn ' t genocide . Throwing the word genocide around may make you feel like you have a better argument , but it doesn ' t make it true or magically make these actions actually genocide .