It is widely known that upon contact with new civilization, the indigionous people can be wiped out because they are not immune to our sicknesses; wouldn’t they also have some illness that europeans aren’t immune to?
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Just wanted to add that the European’s policy to indegenous people was in many cases one of genocide. So, it was not just disease, it was also frequent war, the colonizers destroyed food stores to starve them and often agitated any tribal politics into open intertribal warfare if possible. Old Town Destroyer had Hamiltin pen a letter describing the goal of the United States should be the complete eradication of the indian. Foreign born epidemics only further added to a people being constantly attacked and exhausted by the ill intent of the neighbors. It says alot that the nazis gave open credit to copying some of their jewish policies from the historical policy of the US to indian people.
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