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This work offers a comprehensive demographic analysis of North American Indian populations, charting the severe losses—often referred to as a holocaust—experienced during European colonization and later periods. It examines the causes of population decline, government policies, and the strategies employed by Indigenous peoples to survive and maintain cultural continuity.
First publish date: 1987
Genre: History/Modern History
Authors: Russell Thornton
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