How many Native Americans died when the colonist arrived?

Answer 1

The best anthropological estimates place the number of Indians in the US (not Canada and Mexico) at 6-8 million. Through armed conflict, disease, and genocide those numbers dwindled to ~1.2 million Indians by the late 19th century.

Disease is credited with being the greatest killer. Remember, too, that Indians paid back the White Man with cancer causing tobacco and peyote.

There weren't that many Indians when the Whites arrived because the agriculture and farming technologies of Indians were not as developed as Western European farmers and therefore could not support large populations. American Indians had basic farming skills but largely were hunter gatherers.

Answer 2

totallys answer is scary if that is what she was taught.......

angle the fifth has it just about right.....no one knows how many people lived in North America when the Europeans arrived; there was no census after all.......but there weren't that many compared to Europe because their farming practices couldn't feed a large population, so there was nothing like a London or Paris or Madrid in the New World...

a very large percentage..........easily over half, maybe more.....died of diseases Europeans had but had survived and were immune to, like smallpox....a sickness hardly anyone has seen in the 20th century but which use to kill 3 out 0of 4 it infected .....

and while many Native Americans, from the Massasoit in Boston to the Aztecs in Mexico were killed in combat with Europeans, it was a very small percentage of the population as a whole.

The English settlement of North America was a touch and go thing from 1620 to about 1720.....if the Indians had been a unified government or society they could have driven the settlers back into the sea at any point in that 100 years.....but they weren't so they didn't and by 1760 there were a million settlers on the East Coast and Canada ; the fight was essentially over even though it went on another 100 years...

Answer 3

In 1493, when Columbus returned to the Hispaniola, he implemented policies of slavery and mass extermination of the Taino population of the Caribbean. Within 3 years, 5 million were dead.

"By conservative estimates, the population of the United states prior to European contact was greater than 12 million. Four centuries later, the count was reduced by 95% to 237 thousand.

"Indian Removal" policy was put into action to clear the land for white settlers. The Removal Act of 1830 set into motion a series of events which led to the "Trail of Tears" in 1838, a forced march of the Cherokees, resulting in the destruction of most of the Cherokee population."

As the result of the Homestead Act of 1862, there was blatant genocide of Native populations in California and Texas. In California, the decrease from about a quarter of a million to less than 20,000 is primarily due to cruelties and wholesale massacres.

The concentration of Native American in small geographic areas, and the scattering of them from their homelands, caused increased death, primarily because of associated military actions, disease, starvation, extremely harsh conditions.

One of the most substantial methods to exterminate the Native populations was the premeditated destructions of the buffalo and the flora and fauna which the Native Americans used for food.

Smallpox was not the pathogen that was intentionally introduced to the Native populations . Until 1970 Native children were remove from the reservations and placed in residential schools. At these schools Native children were intentionally exposed to tuberculoses. In many of those schools, the statistics report that 50% of the children died.

95% of the Native population was eradicated and that policy continued well in to the late 1900s. This is not Americas prehistory.
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Answer 4

No one knows there were no records kept of how many Native Americans there were in the first place and the colonist were surely not going to keep track of all the ones they killed by deliberate means or through the diseases they brought.

Answer 5

Oh genuinely. They welcomed the growth of their gene pool. Thanksgiving is a trip celebrated around the globe. It has not something ot do with Indians and Europeans, pilgrims or rape. We rejoice to furnish thank you for the advantages we've won during the previous 3 hundred and sixty 5 days - and the advantages we are hoping to get carry of interior the destiny. and throughout the time of nutrition banks and classes to assist the homeless, with the aid of maximum cancers fund raisers and all the different issues we do to assist advance the lot of our fellow guy, we are hoping to proportion our stable fortune with those not so fortunate.

Answer 6

About half their population was ravaged by disease (Sorry I don't have an exact number). They were killing them with diseases (measles, smallpox,which killed most of them). The colonists gave the Natives gifts to make peace, but they were contaminated with smallpox. The colonists were already immune to the disease so they could be around it without catching it.

Answer 7

There where more than anybody could Imagen. The population was harmed more by the European diseases then us killing them. If I had to say I would say millions. Not to mention all the Natives the Spanish killed.

Answer 8

well, all of them who refused to live like the whitemen. the people who died fighting for there contriey were in the millions. they were my people, and i would have fought to the end with them, side by side with my people.

Answer 9

over 20 million

Answer 10

According to the 1532 census? You can probably find the census results online.