Was it inevitable and unavoidable that violence and dispossession were outcomes of the centuries-long confrontation of native Americans with European settlers and their American descendants?

Answer 1

The conflict between white settlers and Native Americans was unavoidable. The United States was bent on dominating the land from coast to coast. They sought territory, new homelands, the wealth of mining minerals and to increase the power of the USA in world affairs. This could only be done by creating a nation that was considered to be a member of the world community.

Sadly all this came at the expense of the Native Americans. They were run off their ancestral lands by large numbers of Federal troops and an overwhelming surge of white settlers headed West.

The entire "New World" became the realm of the immigrants from Europe. And as it was in the North American continent, the South American continent would produce similar but not exact results.

Answer 2

They were not all the same. Bartolome de las Casas wanted to save native Americans. Although the native Americans were inevitably destroyed by European infectuous diseases.

Answer 3

yup