MLB Cleveland Guardians.

Remind me . . . . Didn't Kapernick get the idea to kneel from a special forces guy? I'm too lazy to look it up. 

I haven spoken to active duty military and to special forces in Afghanistan about kneeling during the anthem.  And both said that it was wildly offensive and disrespectful.  And nothing about that is hilarious.

Yes, the Irish have only experienced a few decades of trouble. To quote you, "That is hilarious!" The point is several-fold and nuanced. One point, which seems completely lost upon you, is that the Irish were dumped upon for centuries, subjected to what easily falls into your defined term of "genocide" but generally get fingered as being at fault somehow and someway for what happened to Native Americans.

I am half-Polish, which systematically had their country stolen out from under them over a period of 155 years. And had to endure the Kulturkampf. And had to put up with the Prime Minister of Germany making speeches about the "Polish Question." And had to put up with a German government that had written plans to ethnically cleanse 3 million Polish people during World War I. And then the Polish people were the second-largest group of people killed during the Holocaust. And the Polish immigrants, who were able to get out came to a country populated by a bunch of people who are largely German, who used a bunch of wildly-offensive terms and jokes, which are somehow still ok to tell. And what happened to the Native Americans is all of the fault of the Polish-Americans as well for some reason that can neither be defined nor explained.

You are citing the 1890 census numbers.  In 1890, Native Americans living off of reservations were only counted as Native American, if they were 100% Native American.  As of the 2010 Census, there are 5,220,579 Native Americans in the United States of America.  And that is probably low, because there are a lot of people, who have Native American DNA, who do not know it.

The rest of it is a lot of guesswork, which often contradicts one another.

I have seen some estimates that there were only 8 million Native Americans in all of the Americas in 1491.  18 million seems very high.  10 million is probably a maximum for all lands North of what is today Mexico organized into about 600 tribes.  In any instance, by 1650, there were only about 6 million Native Americans in all of the Americas.  The introduction of smallpox, typhus, measles, influenza, bubonic plague, mumps, and whooping cough decimated the Native American population.

1,000 tribes completely wiped out?  There are 574 Federally-recognized tribes in the United States of America and there are an additional 200+ tribes (estimated to be about 245), which are not Federally-recognized.  There may, in fact, now be more tribes and more Native Americans living in the United States than there were back in 1491.  

As for other tribes, the Celts/Gauls had colonized most of Europe, including England beginning with the middle to late third millennium BC.  And that had all been accomplished by about 275 BC.  And the Celts/Gauls were almost completely wiped out by 117 AD, almost exclusively limited to Ireland and Scotland.

The City of Carthage was founded in 814 BC and built an empire in the Western Mediterranean and expanded for approximately 600 years before being completely wiped off the map in 146 BC, the remnants being incorporated into the Roman Empire, which was taken over by the Vandals and then the Byzantines.  The Carthaginian culture was able to exist in Northwestern Africa under the Vandals and Byzantines but was completely annihilated by Hassan Ibn al Numan, who forced all of the people of Carthage to Tunis, using Carthage primarily as a resource center.

History is needlessly nuanced and messy.  What makes the Native Americans different than what happened in Ireland or Carthage?  Everyone gets their shot.  The residents of the original Chicago, Fort Dearborn, were all killed and Fort Dearborn was burned to the ground in 1812 by Chief Blackbird and the Potawatomi.

Some peoples and tribes are bound to succeed and others are bound to fail.  The weird survivors' guilt expressed by some is very weird.  History is history.  We cannot change it and here because of it.

Just point me to an event in US history that equals the horror, scale, utter disregard for human life as the Trail of Tears which the Irish or Italians endured and the government sponsored.

Black 47.

But that would exceed the horror, scale and utter disregard for human life.

Just point me to an event in US history that equals the horror, scale, utter disregard for human life as the Trail of Tears which the Irish or Italians endured and the government sponsored.