"They were killing each other before we ever showed up"

Stating that Indigenous populations were engaging in war with each other and killing each other long before European arrival is not all together false but is often used by non-natives as a method from detaching themselves from any guilt they might have regarding the situation. In all reality using this kind of speech is just another form of common place racism. When someone says something like this it completely invalidates the whole of the Native American experience that many struggle with on a daily basis. Two wrongs don't make a right...ever. The colonizers, the Europeans, the French, the Spanish, the founders of this country, the Presidents, the Christians were wrong, what they did was wrong, why is that so hard to admit? Instead so many want to shirk the accountability by saying...."they did it too!".