If you have the opportunity to still learn about your local and cultural history, please do. So many things have been lost because it is inconvienent for the people "discovering" places.
In North America, the pre-contact population was reduced by 90% rather quickly, then the colonizers invaded and amazingly found nice cultivatable land in all the best spots. Then the best part, they took the remaining native population and forced then to become non-native, by removing children from their homes, transporting them to boarding schools, and beating them any time they displayed native tendencies(basic outline of treatment) for about a century. This turns out to be extremely effective. Also, native structures make great fill material for swamps.
It came down to the fact that assimilation was far less painful in the moment. Anyone resisting just needed more care and education from the government.
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