I don’t think there’s any evidence for genocide, but my pet peeve for this is how the indigenous people of the Americas are held up purely as victims, as if the concept of violence didn’t exist until Columbus arrived. When the Europeans first arrived in North America, the tribal villages they encountered were surrounded by fortified wooden palisades. Those weren’t just there as decorations. Everyone sucks.

I don’t think there’s any evidence for genocide,

Back up, there may not be evidence for a single, concerted policy of genocide, but there are many verifiable genocides of Native American peoples by colonial polities and societies.

I think they meant there isn’t evidence of Native Americans committing any genocides per se, but there is evidence of violence between them before colonists showed up
What I mean is genocide by one native group of another native group prior to the arrival of Europeans.