Columbus was: Migrant, looking for a better life & diversity our greatest strength. That makes him right to ignore borders.

https://x.com/loganclarkhall/status/1977761653308506434/photo/1

video - https://x.com/i/status/1845805483539472438

BUT -

In reality, indigenous American peoples were warlike cannibals, already subjected themselves to "devastation, violence, stealing land, and widespread disease."

Not just Incas & Aztecs..... Cahokia civilization, near St. Louis, did literal human sacrifice:

https://www.ancientpages.com/2015/08/27/human-sacrifice-at-cahokia-victims-were-locals-not-foreign-captives/

Dated to between 1000 and 1100 CE, their remains were mostly buried in large pits, laid out in neat rows, and bearing few signs of physical trauma, perhaps killed by strangulation or blood-letting.

And Natchez people near Mississipi:

[wiki] The Natchez performed ritual human sacrifice upon the death of a Sun. When a male Sun died, his wives were expected to accompany him by performing ritual suicide.

How bout that Crow Creek Massacre, in 1325?

Native on native.................. 1325.

Europeans must have felt like this:

video - https://x.com/i/status/1832846362347479323

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-49495167