" November 2014 (UTC) 
 :::totally agree, and just ignore the equivocators...... but you missed one, albeit one not widely known about and only recently ""proven"" to have been instigated by colonial officials, the Great Smallpox of 1862-63 in British Columbia, a massive depopulation which set the stage for appropriation of native lands (that are still native according to recent Supreme Court decisions) beyond what had already taken place with the initial gold rushes that led to the colony's founding; Americans were involved but the plan was enacted by British colonial and military officials (including the governor).  03:56, 17"