CSPAN3 Native Americans And Foreign Disease October 11, 2015
In this 1983 photograph, president reagan meets with a group of afghan commanders in the white house. Matteluary of 1988, gorbachev announced the soviet government would withdraw their 100,000 troops from afghanistan. The final troop withdrawal was one year later. Next on American History tv, an author and historian explains why native americans were so vulnerable to europeanintroduced diseases. Indigenous populations had little to no exposure to diseases like smallpox or to colonization. However, illness was only one piece of a larger puzzle in the native populations dont fall. The Kansas Cit...
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