If the death rate of smallpox is 30%, and apparently ‘majority’ of the Indigenous people there died from smallpox, how did their population decline by 90%?

  • atomicshrimp@lemmy.ml
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    3 years ago

    not much of a history buff myself

    there was this whole ‘stolen generation’ event here where we were like kidnapping their children and trying to breed them with white people, it was dark