The USA absolutely did commit genocide against native people, but most of the time that genocide did not look like what we think of when you say genocide. It was mostly pushing people off their land, depriving them of their original food source, forcing them to become refugees in other tribes, and causing more starvation deaths in those tribes when lean winters came. It’s hard for a lot of people to conceptualize genocide without people lining up civilians for execution, but examples like that in american history serve more to demonstrate american brutality than to explain the population shift.
Make no mistake though. There was a lot of just straight up shooting people, like a lot. As well as deliberate use of biological weapons and more subtle attempts to destabilize and destroy their culture by targeting spiritual and community leaders for execution.
And sterilization, and cultural genocide through forced ‘re-education’ and seperating children from their parents.
US genocide against native people is like a text book list of ways by which it is possible to commit genocide.
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