On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 22:36:16 -0500, "David R. Birch"
wrote:

Gunner wrote:
On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 16:51:51 -0500, "David R. Birch"
wrote:

Gunner wrote:
On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 14:54:36 -0400, "J. Clarke"
wrote:

So it was the Spanish given smallpox infected blankets to the
Indians and paying bounties on scalps?
By the time anybody started giving "smallpox infected blankets" to the
Indians the indigenous population had already been decimated.

Hardly so.

Gunner
Probably so. The original meaning of "decimated" was "one in ten".
Between the Spaniards' genocide and European diseases, a 10% decline
between 1492 and the late 1800 isn't unlikely.

David

The British were gone before 1800.

From Canada? Other new world colonies?

David

From the US. The Canadians had a far more enlightened relationship
with their Native Peoples.

Gunner