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%?
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%?
I posted this on the perthchat [matrix] and got:
To put it bluntly Genocide We're still digging up unmarked graves of Indigenous children So I would be very wary of the statistic about how the majority died In fact, that is not something I was ever taught, the smallpox reasoning Sounds like a handwashing exercise
good to hear that there are teachers are not mindlessly parroting propaganda