The evidence has been out there for a long time that syphilis originated in the New World and first appeared in Europe after Columbus and his men returned from Columbus’ first voyage. But some people have denied it because they thought that the truth would besmirch the reputation of the indigenous Americans. The Indians had had it for a long time but had milder cases.
Besmirch the reputation of the indigenous Americans? How so? Millions of them died from small pox, so they say. Neither the small pox or syphilis epidemics were intentional, however. They didn’t even know about viruses or bacteria until the invention of the microscope many years later.
***But some people have denied it because they thought that the truth would besmirch the reputation of the indigenous Americans. ****
Sad but true. Back in the mid 1960s began the revision of the American Indian into a “noble Savage” who never scalped, tortured, and only did the Happy Dance with his neighboring tribes till the EVIL White Man came along. It was written into movie scripts and TV shows of the 1970s. Real archaeologists knew this was not true but were threatened not to reveal their findings. Then came the discovery of the Crow Creek Massacre and later the Sacred Ridge Massacre. Yet people today still believe the benevolent Native narrative.
Here is a list of links I have found over the years. Some were said to be “fakes” in the 1970s but have been found to be truthful.
How the tribes treated each other before the White Man arrived.
https://archive.news.wsu.edu/press-release/2014/08/04/wsu-researchers-see-violent-era-in-ancient-southwest/#.U9_iumNjYzJ
Last days of the ancient Pueblos.
https://blairmastbaum.substack.com/p/the-terrifying-final-days-of-the
Crow Creek Massacre.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/feb/9/crow-creek-massacre-in-1300s-remains-south-dakotas/
https://www.academia.edu/7907221/Mass_Grave_at_Crow_Creek_in_South_Dakota_Reveals_How_Indians_Massacred_Indians_in_14th_Century_Attack
Sacred Ridge Massacre.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/massacre-sacred-ridge
Human sacrifice at Cahokia
https://www.ancientpages.com/2015/08/27/human-sacrifice-at-cahokia-victims-were-locals-not-foreign-captives/
Ancient Massacre Discovered in New Mexico — Was It Genocide?
https://lostworlds.org/ancient-massacre-discovered-in-new-mexico-was-it-genocide/
Anasazi Cannibalism
https://archive.archaeology.org/9709/newsbriefs/anasazi.html
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-antiquity/article/abs/additional-evidence-for-cannibalism-in-the-southwest-the-case-of-la-4528/FB7F8B0434EA3118B716AE84EC368DC8
Basketmaker II Cave 7: Massacre or Cemetery?
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0305440312000829
New Research Supports Theory of Ancient Massacre Site in Utah
https://www.cityweekly.net/BuzzBlog/archives/2013/09/11/new-research-supports-theory-of-ancient-massacre-site-in-utah
Massacre at Awatovi is little known act of genocide
https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/trail_dust/trail-dust-hopi-massacre-at-awatovi-is-little-known-act-of-genocide/image_830b57c1-78ad-5775-8b72-ed47dd6aba23.html
How genocide wiped out a Native American population
https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna39268873
Isotopic and genetic analyses of a mass grave in central California: Implications for precontact hunter-gatherer warfare
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26331533/
Buried with their MOTHERS’ SKULLS:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3280870/Why-4-300-year-old-bodies-buried-EXTRA-skulls-500-graves-unearthed-California-showing-signs-bizarre-burial-rituals.html
And who can forget the Cherokee Slave Rebellion of 1842.
https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry?entry=SL002
How Native American Slaveholders Complicate the Trail of Tears Narrative
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/how-native-american-slaveholders-complicate-trail-tears-narrative-180968339/
And not a white man around to blame it on for centuries.