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re: Happy Indigenous People's Day!

Posted on 10/12/15 at 1:46 pm to
Posted by jrodLSUke
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In 1524, Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano sailed for King Francis I of France and is known as the first European since the Norse to explore the Atlantic coast of North America.
Posted by Mung
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Posted on 10/12/15 at 2:00 pm to
One of those books, 1491 or 1493, claims that there were 90 millions natives in the Americas pre-Euro-contact, and that 90% died of disease over the next couple of centuries. Freaking amazing, if true. By the time the northeast got settled the locals had been decimated.
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