I have a BA in History and Politics too, I don't see what that proves. I am sure plenty of learners learn more about history away from their ideologically accepted lecture halls. I certainly have. Having Indian blood is irrelevant to the argument unless you were actually partaking in events from 200 years ago. Otherwise, it is just a distraction.

What I do maintain is that invasion, slaughter, concentration camps and the subsequent murder by gun or illness inflected by purpose or accident count towards the genocide. The black plague was a plague alone. It wasn't also based around invasion, massive land theft and massacres of largely indigenous people. Quite different.