A Navajo dwelling is burned in order to eradicate smallpox, late 19th/early 20th century. Outbreaks
A Navajo dwelling is burned in order to eradicate smallpox, late 19th/early 20th century. Outbreaks like this one on the Leupp Reservation in Arizona represented the tail end of a series of epidemics brought by European occupation of the New World. These diseases killed the vast majority of the Native American population.{WHF} {HTE} -- source link
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