• Lemmygradwontallowme [he/him, comrade/them]
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    10 months ago

    Question: Regarding the buffalo issue on the Native Americans

    You know, I always thought that disease spread to the Americas through battles and forced labor upon Indigenous people, instead of it being tragic and inevitable effect of contact between the colonists and them...

    Do you suppose there's something more than just "Americapox killed most of the Indigenous, and the contact between the old and new worlds made it inevitable"?