"More often through good intentions (Must deliver west coast "savages" to God). No argument."

  Are you kidding?
  That "God" bit is the ugliest part of the genocide and cultural genocide. Along with the deliberate starvation and "donation" of disease-ridden blankets to the Indigenous people.
  That's largely why the hippies became supporters of the First Nations and why they renounced their religion.
  Virulent fake "Christianity" was the... ugh..."moral" rationale for the slaughter of people all over the British, French and Spanish empires.
  
   Hard to believe in 2017 anybody would still be trying to defend colonization. The history of the last 100 years is the attempt of people everywhere to get free from the destructiveness of empires. How would you like to be colonized?
  If Columbus hadn't reached America, we might all be living very comfortable lives in Britain or Europe. And the First Nations would have lived happily ever after. All of us free of endless imperialist wars.