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roamer65

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23. 90 pct of Native Americans died as a result of the viruses us Euros brought over with us.

Reply to Norbert (Original post)

Mon Apr 26, 2021, 09:20 PM

Apr 2021

Started after 1492.

When the Spanish invaded and proceed to “conquer” Mexico, there were whole Native American villages that were unoccupied because smallpox and other viral diseases had killed all of the residents.

The plans of the Spanish were to use Native Americans as slave labor, but the death rates were so high that they went elsewhere for slave labor...across the Atlantic to Africa.

So began another sordid piece of Euro history.

SO...FUCK YOU SANTORUM.

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Now the Right Wing Extremists are going after Native Americans [View all] Norbert Apr 2021 OP

Iroquois Confederacy, he missed that. irisblue Apr 2021 #1

Yep. . .my mother's side of the family is Haudenosaunee AZLD4Candidate Apr 2021 #6

Then you probably know that wnylib Apr 2021 #15

Considering I havea PhD in history and her PhD dissertation was on the Great Binding Law. . . AZLD4Candidate Apr 2021 #17

Beats my BA in Spanish studies and minor wnylib Apr 2021 #22

The real legacy of America: Built from stolen land and stolen labor. brush Apr 2021 #2

The original cancel culture malaise Apr 2021 #3

No more corn products, no more potato or tomato products, no more chocolate. Crunchy Frog Apr 2021 #7

Correct is right malaise Apr 2021 #8

And chocolate, pumpkin, pecans, tomatoes, turkey, wnylib Apr 2021 #16

You think that ignorant racist has a clue? malaise Apr 2021 #18

I'd be happy to inform him. But he wnylib Apr 2021 #24

Not to mention the genocide.... SergeStorms Apr 2021 #14

One of my favorites malaise Apr 2021 #19

England entered a country free of pollution, a country with clean water, a country with people who katmondoo Apr 2021 #4

☝️☝️☝️☝️ PortTack Apr 2021 #5

Yep uponit7771 Apr 2021 #13

+1 2naSalit Apr 2021 #20

A little heads up for pRick Sphinctorum: 11 Bravo Apr 2021 #9

+1 2naSalit Apr 2021 #21

And the city and county of Erie, wnylib Apr 2021 #25

Santorum is a dangerous NAZI moron. Kid Berwyn Apr 2021 #10

Slaves were brought to the US KT2000 Apr 2021 #11

CNN needs to ditch Sanctorectum. ASAP. n/t TygrBright Apr 2021 #12

90 pct of Native Americans died as a result of the viruses us Euros brought over with us. roamer65 Apr 2021 #23

A large number of Native Americans wnylib Apr 2021 #26

No disagreement here. roamer65 Apr 2021 #27

anyone wonder if this is because of sec halaand? mopinko Apr 2021 #28