Well it depends how you interpret wiping out a group of people. If you were to base it off DNA, then we are still slowly working towards wiping out the Neanderthals. If you were to base it off “pure” genes (when did the last 100% Neanderthal die) then it gets hairier because we have all been mixed so thoroughly. It also raises philosophical questions about what a “Mayan” person is, like is there a genetic sequence that is Mayan? Or is it anyone who lived in that time/place?
The Mayan fellow I met in Cancun last year did not seem to be troubled by any such philosophical questions. He is Maya, his family is Maya, they have always been Maya; that's his sense of identity. There is no Spanish spoken in his village; he had to learn it after he arrived in Cancun, looking for work.
