We count that in the genocide

my point is it is completely fair to say white America killed the vast majority of the natives

whitewashingly pedantic to blame the gun and not the man pulling the trigger

I have a suspicion that if it weren't for all the disease the colonizers would have destroyed them anyway.

Also nobody intentionally made them deathly ill? Smallpox blankets.

"Guns, Germs, & Steel"?

I guess my sticking point is, does it matter if it was intentional? Contact with Europe destroyed them from both accidents and outright malice. It was still genocide even if it was on accident, imo.

smallpox being one, there is evidence smallpox originated from horses, which were abundant in europe, horses had thier own pox virus.(and going back further it came from an unknown rodent host.