Posted on 10/13/2017 12:20:35 PM PDT by NKP_Vet
There are a couple of theories involving DeSoto’s Journey.
The first is that he and his men spread euro disease across the south.
The second is that the herd of pigs that DeSoto drove along with him infected the native deer population with disease which spread and wiped out the main native protein source.
There is a 100+ year gap between the numbers of inhabitants observed by DeSoto and those reported by the first French voyagers who penetrated the interior of the continent.
100 years later there were far fewer natives.
Never mind that — the narrative uber alles.
You never heard of Lord Hernán Cortés, Duke of Tenochtitlan?
There’s an area of Peru that is so remote it was never fully conquered by either the Incas or Spanish.
Great cultural video about the Christmas Day town fight that lets everyone vent their frustrations against each other.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/avnexa/takanakuy-part-1
All for naught. We now all live on the giant Indian reservation. Where we pay taxes, have no private property, regulations and forced obey the rulers appointed over us.
Interesting.
All I hear is that Americans set out to destroy the indians. I never hear about the Spanish.
The extermination of native people in Argentina did NOT occur under the Spanish government.
So this ancient culture has "the airing of grievances." But that's Festivus, not Christmas!
Festivus - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festivus
Yeah. Like the burning of monastaries and their libraries by Cromwell in England, or the destruction of pagan documents and temples by Christians at the end of the Roman Empire or the continuing destruction of historical relics, buildings and sites by Islamic fanatics.
The English claim to the New World, like Spain's, was because of an Italian seafarer.
If you try, I think you’ll be able to add a more recent example, from closer to home.
Explain that to the Maya!
Re: “...it’s possible that the Vikings brought that plague with them. Just a thought.”
It’s possible the Vikings encountered indigenous people in Greenland or Iceland, but I can’t recall ever reading about that.
However, as far as I know, there are no written records at all of Viking interaction with the native population in northeast Canada.
As I recall, two Viking settlements in Labrador have been excavated, and no locally made artifacts were found in either one.
Personally, I have always been very skeptical that 90%-95% of indigenous Americans were killed by European diseases.
If true, such a death rate, ranging across millions of square miles, has no equal in the 3,000 years of medical history in the Old World.
It is likely that the Great Plagues of Europe, which may have killed up to 25% of the population, were imported from Asia.
However, in Asia, those same plagues killed less than 5% of the population.
Weather, and famine, often played a vital part in plagues.
People who are cold and hungry die at a much higher rate.
I can’t recall any Great Plagues sweeping through central and southern Africa, and I assume that warmer weather, plus better record keeping by the European slave traders, might be the reason that did not happen.
The Will of Odin, I guess.
My understand is the revolutions in Latin America against the crown were orchestrated by the elites of those societies. They never had any intention of including the little people into their rebellions.
I’m a bit skeptical like you about this article.
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