It wasn't just about European invaders handing out smallpox-infected blankets, although there are contemporary documents proving this happened in 1760 and there were later cases of deliberate germ warfare against the Native Americans.
It has been estimated that up to 90% of Native Americans died due to epidemics of influenza, measles, small pox and other diseases that raged through the populations following the arrival of Europeans.
One of the factors that helped the revered Pilgrims (who were actually a bunch of obnoxious religious fanatics) survive and prosper after their very poorly-timed landing at Plymouth was that they found an abandoned Native American village surrounded by fields that had been cleared from the forest. This was typical all up and down the eastern seaboard: Europeans would explore an area and encounter a few Native Americans, but it was clear from the clearings in the forest that there once had been a much larger population. Of course, the Europeans chose to see this as the hand of Divine Providence at work, but it was actually just a case of the Europeans being disease-infested and the Native Americans having no herd resistance to the novel diseases they brought with them.
Yep. The Eastern forests of North America were dense and grew right up to the beach. If you were bad at deer hunting, you starved. In fact, a barrel of gunpowder was a year's supply of food. No wonder the Colonials went berserk when British Authority tried to confiscate their rifles.
IIN I think Native Americans need to get over themselves
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It wasn't just about European invaders handing out smallpox-infected blankets, although there are contemporary documents proving this happened in 1760 and there were later cases of deliberate germ warfare against the Native Americans.
It has been estimated that up to 90% of Native Americans died due to epidemics of influenza, measles, small pox and other diseases that raged through the populations following the arrival of Europeans.
One of the factors that helped the revered Pilgrims (who were actually a bunch of obnoxious religious fanatics) survive and prosper after their very poorly-timed landing at Plymouth was that they found an abandoned Native American village surrounded by fields that had been cleared from the forest. This was typical all up and down the eastern seaboard: Europeans would explore an area and encounter a few Native Americans, but it was clear from the clearings in the forest that there once had been a much larger population. Of course, the Europeans chose to see this as the hand of Divine Providence at work, but it was actually just a case of the Europeans being disease-infested and the Native Americans having no herd resistance to the novel diseases they brought with them.
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nah man providence is 50 miles southa plymouth
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From what I've heard, that Providence ain't exactly divine.
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its fascinatin and not widely known that providence is prolly the most mob owned & run city in the country
https://www.crimetownshow.com/episode-1
Yep. The Eastern forests of North America were dense and grew right up to the beach. If you were bad at deer hunting, you starved. In fact, a barrel of gunpowder was a year's supply of food. No wonder the Colonials went berserk when British Authority tried to confiscate their rifles.