>The loss of the population was so high that it was partially responsible for the myth of the Americas as "virgin wilderness". By the time significant European colonization was underway, native populations had already been reduced by 90%. This resulted in settlements vanishing and cultivated fields being abandoned. Since forests were recovering, the colonists had an impression of a land that was an untamed wilderness.[43] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_disease_and_epidemics
>In Peru, more than 50% of the previously-uncontacted Nahua tribe were wiped out following oil exploration on their land in the early 1980s, and the same tragedy engulfed the Murunahua in the mid-1990s after being forcibly contacted by illegal mahogany loggers. https://www.survivalinternational.org/articles/3106-uncontacted-tribes-the-threats
>On the Yurua River I met people from the Murunahua tribe, discovered for the first time in the mid-1990s by illegal loggers. The presence of loggers in areas inhabited by uncontacted tribes is extremely dangerous; in the Amazon, up to 90% of entire groups have been wiped out by disease after first contact with outsiders. Jorge, one of the surviving Murunahua, told me: "When the loggers made contact with us we came out of the jungle. Then the disease came, although we didn't know what a cold was then. Half of my people died. My aunt died. My nephew died. The old people especially. When the old people came out of the jungle they had no resistance to the disease." https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/mar/27/peru-international-aid-and-development
>>510549259 (OP)
I highly dugout their numbers ever exceeded 5,000,000, due to how much infighting and nonstop intertribal warfare they constantly did.
>>510549259 (OP)
How did they die? Did they choke on the glass beads they traded for? I guess it's the colonist's fault for not telling them to abstain from putting the beads in their mouth. You need a warranty for that kind of thing.
>>510549467
It was 2-3 million tops in North America, most of whom died from disease. The main problem Indians had was being a bunch of divided tribes. Who allied with different European empires.
But yeah they got fucked but atleast they fought back.
>>510550393
Desperate to get a one up on a conquered and irrelevant people. Maybe focus on the kike boot on your neck, seems like the more immediate threat than the chugs on rez.