Specifically by being given deliberately infected blankets? We probably won't know for sure. But it is known that the disease had a 90% mortality rate when it hit a native population.
2 Answers · Society & Culture · 29/06/2012
...as trying to spread smallpox through infected .... One estimate is that 90% of the population decrease...estimate puts the death by disease at 3,500,000 Native Americans .
18 Answers · Arts & Humanities · 14/08/2009
There's no way way to tease those apart, when some were deliberately infected, and they deliberately set tribes against each other. The numbers I've seen cited are 80-100 million.
2 Answers · Arts & Humanities · 13/04/2013
...4/4. http://www2.nau.edu/~jar/IndianLinks.html Historically, many Native Americans were killed off by smallpox or other diseases after 1492. The remnants largely ...
2 Answers · Education & Reference · 26/08/2011
... (such as smallpox , for example...resistance, and were more likely to be killed by those ... the Native Americans had...more slowly. Many Native ...
7 Answers · Arts & Humanities · 24/06/2016
... Pitt, it killed between 400,000-500,000 (possibly up to 1.5 million) Native Americans during and years...and btw....a person can have smallpox , and be contagious, yet not show any...
4 Answers · Entertainment & Music · 03/07/2014
... (such as smallpox , for example...resistance, and were more likely to be killed by those ... the Native Americans had...more slowly. Many Native ...
3 Answers · Arts & Humanities · 27/11/2012
... out by the arrival...such as smallpox swept... and killed almost everyone...which the Natives had...if that were not enough, many Native Americans were ...
10 Answers · Arts & Humanities · 27/11/2007
... know how many Native Americans actually live in the ... say it was high as 112 million. ...measles, cholera, typhus, and smallpox . The fact is ...
2 Answers · Arts & Humanities · 07/05/2011
... are that smallpox killed off over 90% of the native population, which was , circa 1500 , somewhere... go by .....where did you... native American were nomadic...
5 Answers · Society & Culture · 26/10/2013
