From 1492 to 1600, nearly 100 million Native Americans died because the European eruption into the American continents. Colonialism was every bit as negative for First Peoples as were communism and fascism in the 20th century.
Liar, the Native American population increased after the evil white man arrived you ******* propagandist.
Goddamn, I did not think anyone was that stupid or that much of a liar to post that kind of drivel.
September 2004
Were American Indians the Victims of Genocide?
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It is a firmly established fact that a mere 250,000 native Americans were still alive in the territory of the United States at the end of the 19th century. Still in scholarly contention, however, is the number of Indians alive at the time of first contact with Europeans. Some students of the subject speak of an inflated"numbers game"; others charge that the size of the aboriginal population has been deliberately minimized in order to make the decline seem less severe than it was.
The disparity in estimates is enormous. In 1928, the ethnologist James Mooney proposed a total count of 1,152,950 Indians in all tribal areas north of Mexico at the time of the European arrival. By 1987, in
American Indian Holocaust and Survival, Russell Thornton was giving a figure of well over 5 million, nearly five times as high as Mooney’s, while Lenore Stiffarm and Phil Lane, Jr. suggested a total of 12 million. That figure rested in turn on the work of the anthropologist Henry Dobyns, who in 1983 had estimated the aboriginal population of North America as a whole at 18 million and of the present territory of the United States at about 10 million.
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