[FederalistVet]

"The Indian population in Aztec times was considerably higher than it is now. After all, when you look at most Mexicans, don't they look more Hispanic than Indian?"

Actually, most Mexicans look more Indian but the important thing is that most of them were not wiped out by disease until later when the Europeans wagon trains would purposely leave Small Pox covered clothing for them to pick up and wear (there are reports of them laughing about it) instead of burning it.

Starvation caused by placing them on reservations after murderous campaigns against them (no one has mastered "ethnic cleansing" quite like the Anglo-Saxons; noncombatants were often the primary targets of a raid and they would often wait till the warriors left before they attacked a village. That was Custer's plan too, but he messed up.)

In the East however, numerous wars were waged against the Native Americans as more territory was needed for the new arrivals from Europe. Tribes sustained more casualties in combat than from disease, and more from outright massacres of tribes that were at peace with the government.

The Spanish and French mixed with the Native Americans more regularly than the English did.

[muawiyah]

BTW, the English "mixed" with the natives at the same rate as any other group. Englishmen, after all, are not sexless, nor, reportedly, are they built differently than other men.

[Sam the Sham]

No, I am talking more of the Aztecs who had dense urban populations. They were not scattered bands like the Plains Indians or have sparse settlements like the Woodlands Indians.