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%?

  • @atomicshrimp@lemmy.ml
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    22 years ago

    not much of a history buff myself

    there was this whole ‘stolen generation’ event here where we were like kidnapping their children and trying to breed them with white people, it was dark

  • @atomicshrimp@lemmy.ml
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    22 years ago

    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