History of the United States I / Unit 2 USH1 0182 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Disease and Mourning Wars
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The idea
Native peoples had no immunity, and disease decimated some populations and wholly destroyed others. Eastern groups read the deaths as hostile acts.
In practice
The Iroquois and comparable groups raiding in mourning wars, taking prisoners to assuage grief and replace the dead.
Where people slip
Prisoners were requickened, given a dead person's identity and adopted into bereaved families.
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