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Although, some feel that the actions taken by the colonists towards the Native Americans were justified, in reality, there actions were both brutal and hostile, making them guilty of genocide. Their guilt was visible by events such as the landing of the pilgrims and the attack of Fort Mystic. A person may believe that the English colonists were not guilty of genocide because they did not have straight forward plans to murder every Indian in …

…blame all the settlers. The ones most at blame are ones like John Mason, the leaders of these attacks. The English colonists were with out a doubt guilty of genocide with their actions taken against the Native Americans. They planned an attack to take over an entire group of people, that being the Pequots mostly, for simply their land. Is all that land really worth the number of innocent lives lost by means of murder?