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The Coming of the Spirit of Pestilence: Introduced Infectious Diseases and Population Decline Among Northwest Coast Indians, 1774-1874
The Coming of the Spirit of Pestilence Introduced Infectious Diseases and Population Decline Among Northwest Coast Indians 17741874
Author: Robert T. Boyd
In the late 1700s, when Euro-Americans began to visit the Northwest Coast, they reported the presence of vigorous, diverse cultures -- among them the Tlingit, Haida, Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl), Nuu-Chah-nulth, Coast Salish, and Chinookans -- with a population conservatively estimated at over 180,000. A century later only about 35,000 were left. Th...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780295978376
ISBN-10: 0295978376
Publication Date: 10/1999
Pages: 403
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Publisher: University of Washington Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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