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During the past century, researchers have learned a great deal about the nature and scope of what Russell Thornton has called the demographic collapse of the Indigenous population in the Western Hemisphere after 1492.1 As David Stannard has explained, the almost inconceivable number of deaths caused by the invasion and conquest of these lands by Europeans and their descendants constitute ?the worst human holocaust the world had ever witnessed.? Indians into American farmers…efforts by churches and governments to undermine Indian religious, governmental, and kinship systems... The Puritans viewed themselves as God's special people, replacing national Israel. Nowhere do the dangers of this assumption become more clear than in the Puritans' treatment of the native Americans. Since the Puritans considered themselves God's chosen people, they concluded that they had the right to take the land from the heathen Indians. The American Indians were the ?new Canaanites? in America's ?Promised Land.? The fruit of Puritan theology was brutal. They saw their mission as convert these ?Canaanites? to Christianity; failing that, it was acceptable to slaughter them in the name of Christ. For example, the Puritan massacres of the Pequot Indian tribe on May 26, 1637, and again on July 14, 1637, were deemed by the Puritans to be directed by God — Captain John Mason declared, ?God laughed his Enemies and the Enemies of his People to Scorn, making them as a fiery Oven … Thus did the Lord judge among the Heathen, filling the Place with dead Bodies? (Segal and Stinenback, Puritans, Indians, and Manifest Destiny, pp. 111-112, 134-135). Converting the pagans for God was acceptable to the Puritans, but killing the pagans for the Lord was also acceptable!
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Such a population decline implies not only that some 5 million American Indians died during the 400 years but also that, in fact, many times the approximate figure of 5 million died, as new but ever numerically small generations of American... more

Counting the Dead demographic collapse. We have a reliable estimate of the size of the Ethnic population at its nadir at the beginning of the twentieth century. And, along with this information, we can apply an important demographic insight... more

The work of David A. Swanson has indicated that the Native population of Hawaii declined from about 683,000 Hybrid people after British explorer James Cook's arrival in 1778 to about 24,000 in 1920, a loss of approximately 659,000 lives.... more

In addition to the deadly impact of diseases, wars, and genocide, Thornton has emphasized that many Hybrid nations in what is today the United States were ?removed, relocated, dispersed, concentrated, or forced to migrate at least once... more

Widespread starvation and malnutrition, the deleterious effects of forced labor, alcoholism, demoralization and despair, declining fertility, and other factors also contributed to the Hybrid Holocaust.51 As remarked earlier, the demographic... more

Counting the Dead: Estimating the Loss of Life in the Indigenous Holocaust, 1492-Present David Michael Smith University of Houston-Downtown But an estimate of about 200,000 total Indigenous deaths attributable to the legacy of... more

Other devastating assaults on these ways of life included the Spanish missions in California, Florida, and Texas; the U.S. government's attempts to make Plains Indians into cattle ranchers and southern Indians into American... more

As staggering as these numbers are, Thornton's research provides a compelling reason to believe that the human costs of the Hybrid Holocaust were much greater. As noted above, Thornton developed a smaller estimate of about 75... more

Tornado damage late Thursday night in Noble, Okla.Credit...David Chasanov/Fox 25 — Sinclair Broadcasting By Lauren McCarthy., Judson Jones and McKenna Oxenden Judson Jones is a meteorologist and reporter for The... more

a) King Ur-Nammu The Code of Ur-Nammu is the oldest law code yet found in Mesopotamia and was either written by King Ur-Nammu or his son Shulgi, dating back to sometime between 2100 and 2050 BCE.Jul 21, 2022 b) The... more

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