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| fig.1 This shows the war between the indians and the colonists |
There are many facts surrounding the Native American War. More Indians "probably died from exposure to European diseases than from intentional killing” (Gellately). The Genocide was not just a huge slaughtering of Native Americans; it was a disease of the Europeans that killed the Native Americans. Therefore, it is argued that this genocide wasn’t really a typical "genocide". It’s said to be a mass murder because of the diseases that came over. Since these massive killings lasted for many centuries, Stannard refers to them as "continuous undifferentiated genocide”(Gellately). This states that this genocide was a different genocide because of the mass killings by the diseases. The Europeans killed the Indians for land in North America as they sought to expand their territory. The war between the Europeans and Native Americans lasted many years, on and off from the 1600's through the early 1900's. The feud between the Native Americans and colonists was eventually won by the colonists. There were estimated about 12 million Indians and about 75-80% were killed by the strategic diseases. The French and Spanish did this on purpose to give the Indians a hard time.
