Frequently, the treatment of the United States of the Native American population is described as genocide. Nearly every time, multiple people claim it was not genocide, but rather the conquering nation taking the land of the conquered, even invoking the Latin phrase voe victis.

What is the historical consensus and what are the arguments for and against if this was genocide? Was it genocide or merely numerous acts of genocide? Was it even acts of genocide or are people correct in stating it was a war of conquest that Native Americans lost. Is there really a difference vetween a war of conquest and genocide?