throughout the Eighteenth and Nineteenth centuries, smallpox epidemics decimate indian tribes of North America. This disease, unknown on the american continent until the arrival of Christopher Columbus, does not meet any immune defense among the indigenous population. It must certainly be hundreds of thousands of deaths, but also the near-extinction of several tribes. Noting the vulnerability of the Indians, several “souls monstrous” did not hesitate to take the opportunity to spread the virus to clear in front of them. Several testimonies indisputable will in this…
