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Many Arawaks died from lethal forced labor in the mines, where a third of workers died every six months. [107] According to historian David Stannard , the encomienda was a genocidal system which "had driven many millions of native peoples in Central and South America to early and agonizing deaths."
Once their territories were incorporated into the United States, surviving Native Americans were denied equality before the law and often treated as wards of the state. [89] [90] Many Native Americans were moved to reservations—constituting 4% of U.S. territory. In a number of cases, treaties signed with Native Americans were violated.
Many Native Americans viewed their troubles in a religious framework within their own belief systems. [ 129 ] According to later academics such as Noble David Cook, a community of scholars began "quietly accumulating piece by piece data on early epidemics in the Americas and their relation to the subjugation of native peoples."
It is difficult to determine the total number of people who died as a result of "Indian massacres". In The Wild Frontier: Atrocities during the American-Indian War from Jamestown Colony to Wounded Knee , lawyer William M. Osborn compiled a list of alleged and actual atrocities in what would eventually become the continental United States, from ...
Park rangers recovered the bodies of Vishnu Viswanath and Meenakshi Moorthy from about 800 feet below where they were last seen.
Cholera was one of the reasons for the deaths of Native Americans during the Trail of Tears. Traveling by steamboat was a common way to travel and cholera was present in the waterways used by the steamboats. [97] It is estimated that 5,000 Native Americans died of cholera on this journey to areas west of the Mississippi. [96]
Intel's fall from grace seemed to happen all at once.Shares of the once iconic chipmaker plummeted 60% in 2024. The company posted the biggest loss in its 56-year history in its latest quarterly ...
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