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Originally Posted by Praxeas
No it doesn't. What led, supposedly because it's just a theory, was that OTHER colonists while in a war, tried to infect their indian enemies.
The Infection by the Spaniards was many years earlier. Your own source names the supposed reason they suspected the colonists of passing on disease has nothing to do with the Spaniards but years later during war with the Colonists in one area they resorted to "germ warfare"
The facts remain, the Indians were vastly decimated BEFORE this war and before the Colonists arrived by disease contrary to what you argued
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It was not Genocide.
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Still amusing, excuse me, but did you really read pages 31, and 32? You do understand why the writer speaks of INDIAN epidemics starting in the Florida peninsula? If you follow what the writer is conveying to the readers how that some conventional anthropologists and historians were of the mindset that these epidemics were merely natural disasters, yet this might not be the case. He brings up the Wampanoag, and Narragansett confederacy and how they were under the impression that it was the colonials who gave them the diseases. I brought this out in my post, because you evidently did not, but wanted your readers to believe that the Wampanoag were already decimated by the time of King Phillip's War, and where foolish to think they could fight the mighty Puritans. The three epidemics which were from 1616 to 1619 were a major distance of the time of King Phillip's War in 1675. So, therefore the greater epidemics were before the Mayflower even hit the shores of the Americas. If we are to say that it was the three epidemics of 1616 to 1619 to claim the Europeans were not at fault for the major reduction in the Wampanoag Confederacy would be totally incorrect.
Still it was the Wampanoag who were the Thanksgiving friends of the Pilgrims. So, it is pretty ironic that we end up with the Europeans beheading and piking the head of the son of Massasoit the chief who once had sweet fellowship with the Europeans of Thanksgiving fame.
The Indians of the North East suffered greatly under the Europeans, and the American Indian would continue to suffer to this day. Genocide of the American Indian was the ultimate focus, and by the end of King Phillip's War against the colonials caused reduction of only a claimed 40% of the Wampanoag? Yet, what about a large majority of young men sold into slavery, also with women and young children? Brings the number of reduction up even higher. I suggest you may want to re-read pages 31, and 32 again to see what the writer is saying about Decimation by Disease. Please also read Genocide on page 34, which speaks of the Pequot Indians being surrounded by the Puritans who then lit their camp on fire burning the Pequot out, then hacking men, women, children, with swords, and axes as they fled the flames.
Yet, I'm finished here I will give you the final word, maybe we can pick this topic up for conversation next year after you read the other four books I offered.
Be blessed and stay well in Jesus name.
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