3 Sep 2022 2:45 am
Case in point. Blame America First guy.walkingstick » 03 Sep 2022, 2:26 am » wrote: ↑ the great usa political system: kill the native people. free land for white Europeans. slaves to clear the land. wars to get resources. debt to buy imports. yes. politicians say. usa has the greatest political system. question: where does usa go from here?
Question for you... How many Native Indians lived in America at the time Columbus arrived? Answer is about 4,000,000 estimated.
100 years later (with minor European migration) in 1600 how many remained? Answer, 400,000.
Why the 90% drop in population over a 100 year span in spite of far too few Europeans to "kill the native people"? Answer, disease.
Native American Indians lived a fairly nomadic lifestyle. Tribal. They didn't congregate in large cities where hygiene and waste and close contact allows diseases to promulgate. Europeans had immunity to dozens of diseases the natives had never been exposed. It took these Europeans a millennium to acquire these immunities. The Native Indians lost 90% of their population as a result. The Indians came to believe the spirits were favoring the White (who never seemed to get sick) and that for some reason they had aggravated their deities. By the time European migration began in earnest around 1600 there were only 400,000 natives left. It was very sparsely populated. It was inevitable the Americas would be settled by the colonial nations at that point.
There have been many examples in which the Native Americans were dealt with unfairly. Many continue to this day to seek redress in the courts. In large part they have been made whole to the extent possible. They have substantial land holding and sovereign rights. They could return to the lifestyle of their ancestors today should they so desire in large part. Most have chosen to take advantage of modern social norms and are quite successful.