European colonization of the Americas was not due to Indigenous culturesʼ lack of "cultural & technological default," but overwhelmingly due to Indigenous peoplesʼ lack of resistance to European communicable disease (smallpox, influenza, diphtheria, tuberculosis, etc.)... A conservative estimate of the number of Indigenous peoples killed by disease in the Americas is at least twenty million with mortality rates reaching in the 95% to even 100% range in some areas. Indigenous cultures possess sophisticated social, economic, and political systems that have allowed us to sustainably thrive in our lands for millennia.