Disease and Infertility

A New Look at the Demographic Collapse of Native Populations in the Wake of Western Contact

Dados Bibliográficos

ID5820728
AutoresDavid E Stannard (University of Hawaii System, autor correspondente)
Ano1990
Volume24
Fascículo3
Páginas325-350
Data de publicação1990-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of American Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0021-8758 • E-ISSN: 1469-5154
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0021875800033661
OpenAlexW2075708891
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas11
Referências citadas35

During the past fifty years few subjects of historical consequence have been more controversial than that of the population history of the American Indian. At one extreme, in 1939 Alfred L. Kroeber estimated the population of pre-Columbian North America at about 900,000. At the other extreme, in 1983 Henry F. Dobyns estimated it at about 18,000,000. Since the total North American Indian population by the early twentieth century was no more than 350,000 to 450,000, the human question concealed in the statistical controversy is staggering: did the North American Indian population decline by a ratio of about 2 to 1 between the end of the fifteenth century and the end of the nineteenth century - or did it decline by 50 to 1 ? Or more

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