Not true ... they were purposely infected with smallpox and possibly other diseases, and the plains Indians had there main food source, the buffalo, almost completed wiped out. It was genocide, pure and simple.
Shel > [Original Message] > From: Adam Maas > The primary reason for the massive population drop wasn't wholesale > slaughter. It was the unthinking introduction of several virulent and > deadly diseases to a population with essentially no resistances to them. > And frankly there was no way the Europeans would have had any inkling of > how dangerous that was. > > This isn't to say that the survivors weren't treated extremely badly. > But the population crash wasn't caused by wholesale slaughter. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
