[quote=Jannah]
Yea, deliberate spread of disease. That is genocide.
[/quote]

The first Europeans to make contact with Natives didn't even realize they were a danger to them. They didn't even know there was a potential for danger at all.

There is exactly one case of the infamous 'smallpox blankets' ever having been used, and it was during wartime, and documented only in a relatively contentious letter.