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The Indigenous population of the Americas in 1492 was not necessarily at a high point and may actually have already been in decline in some areas. Indigenous populations in most areas of the Americas reached a low point by the early 20th century.
The age of manifest destiny, which came to be associated with extinguishing American Indian territorial claims and moving them to reservations, gained ground as the United States population explored and settled west of the Mississippi River. Although Indian Removal from the Southeast had been proposed by some as a humanitarian measure to ensure ...
The European colonization of the Americas from 1492 resulted in a precipitous decline in the size of ... American Indian and Alaska Native population by U.S. state ...
A mass grave being dug for frozen bodies from the 1890 Wounded Knee massacre, in which the U.S. Army killed 150 Lakota people, marking the end of the American Indian Wars. During the Indian Wars, the American Army carried out a number of massacres and forced relocations of Indigenous peoples that are sometimes considered genocide. [115]
He is best known for his groundbreaking demographic research on the size of indigenous American populations before the arrival of Christopher Columbus in 1492. [2] [3] In 1966, Dobyns postulated a much larger pre-Columbian indigenous (Indian) population of the Americas, especially North America, than previous scholars. Dobyns believed that the ...
A 2018 study by Koch, Brierley, Maslin and Lewis concluded that an estimated "55 million indigenous people died following the European conquest of the Americas beginning in 1492." [ 69 ] Estimates for the entire number of human lives lost during the Cocoliztli epidemics in New Spain have ranged from 5 to 15 million people, [ 70 ] making it one ...
In the 2020 census 2.9% of the U.S. population claimed to have some degree of Native American heritage. When answering a question about racial background, 3.7 million people identified solely as "American Indian or Alaska Native", while another 5.9 million did so in combination with other races. [256]
The book, The Native Population of the Americas in 1492 (1976, 1992), which he edited, provided an influential estimate of the pre-Columbian population of the Americas, which he placed at between 43 and 65 million. Much of his research is concerned with how pre-1492 native peoples in the Americas modified their landscapes.