there wasn't a lot of killing as a generality death happened but it wasn't a goal
there was assimilation, capturing and bringing them into each nation
in most nations there was a clan devoted to it
plus you have to consider the devastation that smallpox brought
the Zuni lost some of their Kachinas because the oldest member left was only 16 in one area they have some Kachinas painted in a church from the 1600's and they don't know what they represent
the genocide was so terrible and sometimes utterly complete on this continent that ways of life completely disappeared and ways of right and wrong living disappeared
Correct, near San Franfreako....in the book it says there were was a different Indian and each had their own language in each county in Kalifornia, that is amazing.
That's not surprising when considering they hold gender reveal parties and, debate personal pronoun usage.