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Paperback The Coming of the Spirit of Pestilence: Introduced Infectious Diseases and Population Decline Among Northwest Indians, 1774-1874 Book

ISBN: 0295749180

ISBN13: 9780295749181

The Coming of the Spirit of Pestilence: Introduced Infectious Diseases and Population Decline Among Northwest Indians, 1774-1874

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Examines imported diseases and their impact on Pacific Northwest Indigenous peoples

In the late 1700s when European colonizers arrived on the Northwest Coast, they reported the presence of vigorous, diverse cultures--Tlingit, Haida, Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl), Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka), Coast Salish, and Chinookan--with a population conservatively estimated at more than 180,000. Just a century later the population had plummeted to only...

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