Something else pissing me off about N Biggar: he repeatedly says that the decline in Indian/First Nation populations in N America was not the result of colonisation but of 'the collapse of the bison population' as though the bison suddenly all decided to slaughter themselves en masse.

It was a tragedy how millions of bison took their own lives. If only they'd had more white immigrants there to help them through their mental illness.

You haven't tortured yourself by actually reading the thing? Rather you than me

And yes Nigel we know that smallpox was probably first introduced to Australia by the traditional annual Sulawesi fishing encampment in Arnhem Land but we still brought quite a lot more smallpox with us to places where there wasn't any.

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is the classic tale of plantation, colonisation and extermination. Repeated throughout history and still ongoing.