On 22 October 2001 07:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > Marian wrote: > > "The American immigrants intentionally wiped > out much of the Native Indian population by giving them blankets which had > been used for people who died of smallpox." > > Without which I suppose we could not have understood how the disease is > spread. "The American immigrants". Would that be the English then ? Or was it
Now that I think about it, I think it was the Spanish in Central America who did the thing with the blankets. In some areas, 100% of the population was wiped out. > Is "much" 20% or 40% or 60%. In North America, I think more than 60% of the Native Americans died from smallpox. Marian
