SOSC 3921 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Military Alliance, Indian Act, Endemic Warfare
7 Dec 2016
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Indigenous peoples did have health issues pre-colonial state. But generally speaking there were not serve health issues. They did have experience with disease but it wasn(cid:495)t at the level that european was experiencing it. Contact started in with john cabot landed at newfoundland in 1497. On the west coast there was some fairly frequent contact with asia and. Red oak, during first contact was the colour that some european saw on. Indigenous people were almost certainly in contact with europeans, asian, Indigenous people have stories about seeing the (cid:498)white man(cid:499) for the first. This colour use has cultural significant for aboriginal peoples (use for burials as well). time. Indigenous population at contact is variously estimated at 1-250 million. The numbers are debatable because of varying academic opinions as well as taking into disease death toll into consideration upon contact. Depending on how you look at the population number before and post- contact shows how serve population loss of indigenous peoples.
