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To: Trader X who wrote (14032)5/22/1998 11:27:00 AM
From: Kachina  Read Replies (1) of 17305
 
A little understood fact of the Euro-Amerindian conflict.
The primary decimator of American Indians was not war, although there was that.
There are records from New England, for example, that show that 19 out of 20 American Indians died from disease. Most of this disease was not spread intentionally.

A case in point - That famous Plymouth Colony in Massachussetts.
Those "pilgrims" (a name made up long after they had all died) moved into an existing village that had crops planted in the fields. All the Indians had died from contact with a ship that landed there a month or two before.

The diaries of the "pilgrims" detail how they robbed graves to get nice crockery and other implements.

This wave of "natural biological warfare" is what made it possible for Europeans to take over the Americas. What is remarkable actually is that the "Indian Wars" lasted for a longer time than the USA has existed as a nation. With 19 out of 20 dying of disease, the remainder were hardly pushovers.

Another little known fact. When Benjamin Franklin made his visit to France after the formation of the colonies? He first visited the Iroquois Nation because they were more important, to keep them from taking sides. And the Eagle with the Bundle of Arrows on our currency? That was taken from the symbols of the Iroquois league.

(And on and on ...)
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