[mjp]

So, in the area of the United States, the whites didn’t steal huge amounts of land from the Indians. The whites colonized mostly empty land.

[Badboo]

Only in the beginning. Vast areas of New England had been depopulated by disease even before the pilgrims arrived. It was proof to them that God’s plan was to make the land available to them.

Elsewhere, Indians were thriving, well for a while longer.