This is something I have been curious about for a while, and haven’t been able to find anything as an answer, but how do we know the population statistics for the native populations? How do we know that so many people died, and how do we know that they were killed by disease? did explorers find cities filled with festering corpses, or skeletons? are there native accounts of a “great sickness” over taking their people? Where does the information come from?
I know it makes sense as an explanation, but I’m asking where the evidence that it happened came from.
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“When European settlers arrived in the Americas, historians estimate there were over 10 million Native Americans living there. By 1900, their estimated population was under 300,000. Native Americans were subjected to many different forms of violence, all with the intention of destroying the community. In the late 1800s, blankets from smallpox patients were distributed to Native Americans in order to spread disease. ”
https://hmh.org/library/research/genocide-of-indigenous-peoples-guide/
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