I’ll take a wild guess and say the native Indian population were always on the verge of near extinction before any White people even showed up.
yep, the natives were nearly extinct by the time europe got serious about colonization.
A plague (maybe brought by the first explorers) had cleared most of them out.
Plymouth rock happened in 1620 nearly 100 years after the Americas were discovered, more than enough time for the plague brought by the first explorers to have spread and emptied out the continent.
“I’ll take a wild guess and say the native Indian population were always on the verge of near extinction before any White people even showed up.”
Historians say there was a mass hemisphere-wide die off of Indians before the white Europeans got here, and it was caused by rodent-carried disease vector, similar to the mass die-off in Europe at about the same time.
I would know he lives in El Paso, which is a highly racist, anti-white, Democrat cesspool very corner of Texas that hates all things Texan and white, and makes a buck off of nonsense like this.
It’s his grift.
bingo!
In the U.S. and Canada, the Indian population was well less than a million. Mostly, they eked out a living in the places most conducive to human habitation, in an advanced stone age civilization.
Among the things they lacked were: metal tools, the wheel, grazing animals, work animals and permanent buildings. The Indians only had garden-agriculture, not having a plow. For that matter, the vast plains were unfit for human habitation, being dominated by bison that weren’t possible to hunt prior to the white man bringing the horse and the rifle. And, most of the remainder of the east coast and the southeast were swamp lands.
The Europeans and the Indians had a lot to gain from each other, and the French, English and Dutch settlers joined in trade and other peaceful relations with Indians. Of course, wars broke out, such is the sorry history of mankind. But, these were complicated things, often involving alliances of Indians and Europeans against other alliances of Indians and Europeans.
Many of the Indians including some entire tribes assimilated into the emerging American civilization. Others were relocated to the west, something that - looking back - was wrong, although it did preserve the cultural identity of many tribes. For true Americans, the Indians are the first Americans, a great part of a great nation. What we call the Indian wars were us fighting us and, thus, civil wars. The tragedy of these wars is told in the great John Wayne movie, Red River.
When, finally, the Indian Wars were over, Chief Geronimo was honored in many parades, as a great warrior for his people and, therefore, for us, the American people. These parades are now counted as humiliation by the anti-American left. They cannot accept that we can come together after a war, not the Indian and the white man, not the Yankee and the Rebel, not the American and the Vietnamese. They criticized Reagan for laying a wreath at a memorial to the German soldier. They think we have to hate the Russians. Let’s face it. They’re not Christians and they’re not Americans.
We understand that all of us fall short of the glory of God and are in need, ourselves, of forgiveness. We also know that God has provided this forgiveness for us, and that He calls on us to love and serve one another. One day, hopefully soon, these wars will come to an end, and we - all of mankind - will look back and see them all as civil wars.
Best guess is in 1492 there were approximately half a million to 1 million. No where the 400 million some are trying to pass off.
The original number is from the carrying capacity of the land for the number of people there in a hunter-gatherer society.
Not true, what is that based on?