Reading the blogs yesterday I came across a comment by someone who said that early US settlers killed millions of American Indians when they came to the US.
He stated that the population of indians in the US was something like 50-100 million
I'm just watching a recorded program which mentions the industrial revolution in Britain and the statement was made that the population had doubled to 21 million... could I just state that I had an indication from my bullshit meter that there couldn't be that many indians in the US... not without the facilities they had in the UK.
Youll find the comments, and some refutations, on this thread.
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I read that too. I was tempted to comment on that thread, but to detail just how much was wrong with it (the Africa thing, not the Indian thing), and establishing credentials for an informed opinion was just to much effort for very little point.
I have a post up you may like.
http://sharpessortie.blogspot.com/2010/07/award-winning-pallywood-images.html
I agree, Richard. Sometimes it's better for your own sanity to just walk away from that lot.
Brilliant article on your blog, BTW.
Sandi
http://cogweb.ucla.edu/Chumash/Population.html
... but the estimates of 100Mill are not well supported.
Cheers
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