Re: Marx on Native Americans

[Sid Shniad]

Blaut made the memorable statement that indigenous people weren't
conquered -- they were _infested_! (This drew a hearty laugh from a
Guatemalan friend of mine.)

Sid
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> If I'm remembering correctly, James Blaut says in The Colonizer's Model of
> the World (Guilford, a couple of years ago) that European diseases killed
> many more indigenous North and South Americans than European guns. Blaut
> writes with great confidence - is this a controversial claim at all?
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> Doug
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