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Native American Restaurants (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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Patrick Blumenthal: Why have I never seen a Native American restaurant? Jaybefaunt: Because our country KILLED most of them. A 500 year genocide, Patrick.
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[+] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (10 children)
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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago* (4 children)

    I have a suspicion that if it weren't for all the disease the colonizers would have destroyed them anyway.

    Also nobody intentionally made them deathly ill? Smallpox blankets.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    You're not wrong.

    However, it is worth pointing out that the documented "smallpox blankets" stuff happened in the 1700s and 1800s, which was already a century or two after the continent had been greatly depopulated by diseases spread unintentionally.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    smallpox being one, there is evidence smallpox originated from horses, which were abundant in europe, horses had thier own pox virus.(and going back further it came from an unknown rodent host.

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