Thesis
The Rise
Beginnings
Power in the Plains
European Expansion
Empires at War
The Penateka
Kwahadi
The Red River War
The Fall
"Iron Horse"
Epidemics
1874
Paperwork
Process Paper
Research Paper
Annotated Bibliography
the Comanche
"Wherever the European had trod, death seems to pursue the aboriginal" -Charles Darwin
Henry Dobyns calculated a list of 93 epidemics that hit the Natives Americans between 1520 and 1918.
41 of smallpox
4 of bubonic plague,
17 of measles
10 of influenza
25 of tuberculosis, diphtheria, typhus, cholera, etc.
Modern estimates say the Native American population declined 90% from disease alone.
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