Tribe meets white man for the first time
- Thread starter Cheech
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livebearerfreak
you are hypnotized! LOL
hey i could make it............ er well i can try! but no gerrentee ill survive there ways. im so use to our ways lol.
TBH, I think that in a case of accidental discovery like these are likely to be neither side really has much of a choice. You don't get much of a choice what you find when you're in "unmapped" territory. So to blame our civilization for encountering others is a little stupid. But anyway, that is a cool vid, and I do doubt the 75% dead thing... 50%, yes, I can see that, but 75 is a little high.
Pretty substantial numbers to me....
http://www.earlyamerica.com/review/2007_summer_fall/native-americans-smallpox.html
"This Native American depopulation occurred during the contact period, causing the Native American population size to decline from 1-18 million before European contact (c. AD 1500) to an estimated 530,000 by 1900."
http://www.planeta.com/ecotravel/mexico/yucatan/tales/0303yucatan.html
As a bit of background, Spanish invaders battled 19 years to conquer the Maya in the Yucatán Peninsula. Unlike the Aztecs in central Mexico who succumbed to Cortez in less than two years, the Mayans were not easily overtaken. But by 1700, a once robust Maya population had fallen to 150,000 due to disease, displacement and famine
http://www.earlyamerica.com/review/2007_summer_fall/native-americans-smallpox.html
"This Native American depopulation occurred during the contact period, causing the Native American population size to decline from 1-18 million before European contact (c. AD 1500) to an estimated 530,000 by 1900."
http://www.planeta.com/ecotravel/mexico/yucatan/tales/0303yucatan.html
As a bit of background, Spanish invaders battled 19 years to conquer the Maya in the Yucatán Peninsula. Unlike the Aztecs in central Mexico who succumbed to Cortez in less than two years, the Mayans were not easily overtaken. But by 1700, a once robust Maya population had fallen to 150,000 due to disease, displacement and famine
not semantics at all....just an estimate from yrs passed with no verifiable outside source for confirming the starting or ending numbers....life changes...as Inka stated in post 21, things happen by chance....doesn't mean we are at fault for running acroos them or they are at fault for being found....it is life progressing..call it fate..or whatever, but to blame us for their demise is foolish.
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