Again language has an important element. Your post asks, who did you think they were going to blame? That really is not what the post said.

It said, <"It included a panel listing North America as the continent of the world's worst genocide with a death toll of 15 million, starting with Christopher Columbus' 1492 arrival in the New World but giving no end date.">

This was a "where" question, not a "who was to blame." If you drop some of the paranoia you can say the statement is probably correct.

The "who" attacted to the blame would mostly be the Spanish, and shortly thereafter the French. When Panfilo de Narvaez came through Florida in 1528, DeSoto in 1539, they all brought European virus' with them and introduced them to a population that had no imunity. Cortez did the same thing to the population of Mexico.

In 1562 France claimed Florida from Spain and massive investigations of discovery brought french settlements such as the colony at the St. Johns in 1564. The city of St. Augustine was founded by Pedro Menendez in 1565. The Jesuits built missions here, and then the Franciscan drove them out and built mission until 1705.

By that later date, the estimated three million indigenous population had totaly disappeared. There is no trace or remnants of these people today.

Does it count as a genocide that there are no more: Timucuans, Tocobagans, Ais, Jeaga, Apalachees, Tequestas, Calusas, Miamis, and other peoples. All were lost.

But this genocide was primarily by virus and bacterium.

Does this count? Publius