Smallpox- Hispaniola 1518
Smallpox-Tenochtitlan 1520s; 150,000 dead
Smallpox- Peru 1530s
Measles- Mexico 1600s; 2million dead
Smallpox- Massachusetts Bay 1618-1619; 90% of the population dead
Smallpox-Pacific Northwest 1770s; 30% dead
Smallpox-Plains Indians 1780-1782 & 1837-1838
Smallpox, Measles & Influenza- 90% of the population dead
Smallpox- Plains Indians 1780-1782
The spread of diseases not only wiped out their villages, but they caused their populations to diminish.