This demographic overview of North American Indian history
describes in detail the holocaust that, even today, white Americans
tend to dismiss as an unfortunate concomitant of Manifest Destiny.
They wish to forget that, as Euro-Americans invaded North America
and prospered in the "New World," the numbers of native peoples
declined sharply; entire tribes, often in the space of a few years,
were "wiped from the face of the earth."
The fires of the holocaust that consumed American Indians blazed
in the fevers of newly encountered diseases, the flash of settlers'
and soldiers' guns, the ravages of "firewater," and the
scorched-earth policies of the white invaders. Russell Thornton
describes how the holocaust had as its causes disease, warfare and
genocide, removal and relocation, and destruction of aboriginal
ways of life.
Until recently most scholars seemed reluctant to speculate about
North American Indian populations in 1492. In this book Thornton
discusses in detail how many Indians there were, where they had
come from, and how modern scholarship in many disciplines may
enable us to make more accurate estimates of aboriginal
populations.
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