• snowraven
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    1 year ago

    To be fair more people died from the diseases brought by the settlers.

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      1 year ago

      Apparently that is false. While disease did kill some, as well as early settlers, the rest was actual murder.

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        1 year ago

        Unless you could link a credible source it’s hard to accept this as anything more than a mere opinion

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          https://www.history.com/news/native-americans-genocide-united-states

          You can start the journey of learning the truth here. There are lots of sources of info ( if you ignore Canada/ USAs own accounts in some instances because of whitewashing history) . Also the churches reporting many died of germs from early settlers is a fake after take, because in that era they had no concept of germ theory, that discovery came later.

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        1 year ago

        There’s very less evidence to support that. I can only recall one incident where a blanket infected with small pox was handed out to a tribe and the officer who did that was later severely reprimanded.

        But anyhow, I am not trying to downplay the ill intent of European settlers, I will just quote this here “history is written by victors”. The blanket incident is all I recall about deliberate disease spreading. who really knows? How many hundreds of such incidents went unreported?