[Tell It Right]

"...where the local community was decimated by famine and disease epidemics following the arrival of Europeans".

Yawn. Diseases were rampant everywhere during the Little Ice Age. It ain't a "European" thing. Asia and Africa also had horrible problems with diseases then. It's absurd to think that indigenous Americans would somehow not have horrible diseases too if it weren't for those meddling Europeans.

[GingisK]

Its the European diseases that were brought to the Americas. There were no immunities to them. That is well documented history.