Native American Ecosystems
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Charles Mann describes various viewpoints regarding the number of Native American people on the Western Hemisphere at the time the Europeans started arriving. James Mooney thought there were 1.15 million inhabitants in 1491. Henry Dobyns published a controversial article in 1966, asserting that in fact there were 90 to 112 million people in America before the arrival of Columbus, instigating a culture war that goes on today. His argument was substantiated by records gathered in cathedrals in Mexico and Peru, supporting the theory that millions of native people died because of lack of immunity to the diseases that Europeans brought with them.Hernando de Soto pillaged the land that is now the southeastern part of the United States, raping, torturing, enslaving and killing innumerable Indians, but in his quest for gold, perhaps the worst thing he did was bring along 300 pigs. Pigs breed prolifically and those who got loose in the woods may have spread disease to the deer and turkeys, game which was eaten by the natives and resulting in large scale dea
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