It can be as polite as "They do not love their children like we do" and run all the way up to horses, or men, kicking the heads of human victims ~ usually children but sometimes warriors, but usually never about women. None of the old timers got real attached to women since they were always dying in childbirth.
One analyst determined that in all of the 16th century there were never enough Spaniards in Latin America to have even begun to approach the death rate. If you lined up all the Spaniards and gave them the best swords, sharpened to perfection, and you began marching the Indians up against the Spaniards, the Spaniards would have died of old age before they managed to kill all the Indians they are supposed to have killed.
Not to say the Great Die Off didn't happen, but it was a virus ~ hanta virus ~ that regularly ravages the Americas. It comes back sometimes after a long drought. The rains return. The grass grows. The rodents expand their populations. They spread hanta to the people and the twenty somethings die like flies.
“Not to say the Great Die Off didn’t happen, but it was a virus ~ hanta virus ~ that regularly ravages the Americas. It comes back sometimes after a long drought. The rains return. The grass grows. The rodents expand their populations. They spread hanta to the people and the twenty somethings die like flies.”
I don’t know about the North American continent, but in South America it was the virus Smallpox (Variola), transported from Europe, that did the most killing. It could be said that Smallpox, not Cortez, conquered South America. Also, there is evidence that it did the same along the Eastern Coast of Northern America after explorers exposed the Native Americans.