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awesome thanks. the low estimate is around 800k and I lean toward it. early Europeans tended to overcount because the indians moved around all of the time. it also helped them to give the impression that they were stronger in numbers.
regarding disease, this was a common problem in America BEFORE Europeans and is almost certainly why the population remained small and nomadic. There is plenty of evidence of earlier urban settlement in the USA region and several tribes who did build structures and agriculture in more isolated regions.
My bet is that most false claims by white Americans to an indian ancestor were cover stories for an interloper like a nigger or a jew who fucked up the genetic line at some point. In the very northern european society that was America, any divergence from the larger genetic population would be extremely noticeable. You can pass off a little brown in your background now but until the recent past people were much more racially conscious and would have noticed.
edit: and reservation census data is limited, most Indians didn't go to reservations.
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awesome thanks. the low estimate is around 800k and I lean toward it. early Europeans tended to overcount because the indians moved around all of the time. it also helped them to give the impression that they were stronger in numbers.
regarding disease, this was a common problem in America BEFORE Europeans and is almost certainly why the population remained small and nomadic. There is plenty of evidence of earlier urban settlement in the USA region and several tribes who did build structures and agriculture in more isolated regions.
My bet is that most false claims by white Americans to an indian ancestor were cover stories for an interloper like a nigger or a jew who fucked up the genetic line at some point. In the very northern european society that was America, any divergence from the larger genetic population would be extremely noticeable. You can pass off a little brown in your background now but until the recent past people were much more racially conscious and would have noticed.
edit: and reservation census data is limited, most Indians didn't go to reservations.