by TWilliam » Mon 04 Jun 2007, 04:20:38
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', 'I')t's tempting to think of Anglos-Saxons as the rapers of North America. But it wasn't anglos that killed the Plains Indians. It was tuberculosis. When the settlers arrived the plains were empty. Tuberculosis killed them all and left the great plains empty. That disease is making a comeback. It won't be long now before that disease is etched into modern consciousness as it was in the past. A gruesome wasting disease that killed so many lights of the past.
I believe what you meant to say was smallpox [EDIT and hepatitis, and maybe even a number of other European diseases for which they had no immunity]. For background if you're interested try
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann...
"It means buckle your seatbelt, Dorothy, because Kansas? Is goin' bye-bye... "