East coast Quote by Christina Baker Kline

“that 90 percent of them had died by 1620, almost entirely a result of contact with settlers, who brought foreign diseases and”

— Christina Baker Kline

“Before the first settlers arrived on American shores, a massive plague, or series of plagues, had essentially annihilated the indigenous peoples. They”

— Evan Currie

“In portaging from one river to another, Wabanakis had to carry their canoes and all other possessions. Everyone knew the value of traveling light…

— Bunny McBride

“Throughout the Americas, diseases introduced with Europeans spread from tribe to tribe far in advance of the Europeans themselves, killing an estimated 95 percent…

— Jared Diamond

Pioneers get slaughtered, and the settlers prosper.

— Daymond John

“the colonists in Jamestown perished. Of the five hundred who entered the winter, only sixty were alive by March. The situation was so desperate…

— Daron Acemoğlu

“This (white settlers) was the section of humanity that was favored in that place, the Indians had no place no more there. Their tickets…

— Sebastian Barry

While the Pilgrims landed on 'Plymouth Rock' in 1620, the Spanish had already settled in to the Southwest beginning in the late 1500s, and…

— Deb Haaland

“In every immediate way, the natives had the upper hand. They outnumbered the survivors by more than ten to one. They were healthy and…

— Mitchell Zuckoff

“Why was it I sometimes felt as weary of America as if I too had landed in what was now South Carolina in 1526…

— Saidiya Hartman

“The early settlers amazed her--they had pluck, they led lives of sweaty drama. Theirs was a world of corsets and whipping posts and indentured…

— Jennifer Vanderbes

“During the forty-five months of World War II, the United States lost just under 1 percent of its adult male population; during the Civil…

— Nathaniel Philbrick