Doug Kanter wrote:
"DSK" wrote in message
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Nowhere does it say that diseases brought by Europeans wiped out 80% of
the Indians.

Jeff Rigby wrote:

FIRST wave...was 50%, then the second wave more and the third wave, and
on and on

And yet, you made the claim that 80% of the North American Indians (even
the Eskimos??) were wiped out by disease brought by the Spanish by 1700.
That's ridiculous and the reason your cited web sites (interesting and
fact-filled though they be) do not support your claim.


I'm just sort of lurking in this part of the debate. Natives in places like
Minnesota were wiped out by the Spanish?


In my part of the world (Eastern Canada) the tribes usually lined up
with either the English or French and as a result took many loses.