November 2014 UTC totally agree and just ignore the equivocators but you missed one albeit one not widely known about and only recently proven to have been instigated by colonial officials the Great Smallpox of 1862 63 in British Columbia a massive depopulation which set the stage for appropriation of native lands that are still native according to recent Supreme Court decisions beyond what had already taken place with the initial gold rushes that led to the colony s founding Americans were involved but the plan was enacted by British colonial and military officials including the governor 03 56 17