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That’s an interesting bit of info, but I’m not sure I agree with the author’s claim that the “modern image” of American Indians is one of “sickly victims succumbing to European diseases.” A person can be in robust good health, contract a communicable disease and die from it. If it’s a particularly virulent disease, and your population has never been exposed to it, you’re in some peril.
Does anyone else think that his remark is not really a valid one? Do any of you picture “sickly victims” when you think of any American Indians? I have never heard that or seen that image, anywhere.
In fact, I think the image most people have of Indians is of robust noble savages, living in harmony with an unspoilt Nature. That’s not an accurate image, either, and it owes a lot to 18th century ideas about native people, most notably ideas presented by Rousseau. But again, I just don’t think anyone pictures sickly weaklings, when he thinks of an Indian.
Maybe that’s another one of those ideas that so dumb that only an intellectual believes it.
That’s an interesting bit of info, but I’m not sure I agree with the author’s claim that the “modern image” of American Indians is one of “sickly victims succumbing to European diseases.” A person can be in robust good health, contract a communicable disease and die from it. If it’s a particularly virulent disease, and your population has never been exposed to it, you’re in some peril.
Does anyone else think that his remark is not really a valid one? Do any of you picture “sickly victims” when you think of any American Indians? I have never heard that or seen that image, anywhere.
In fact, I think the image most people have of Indians is of robust noble savages, living in harmony with an unspoilt Nature. That’s not an accurate image, either, and it owes a lot to 18th century ideas about native people, most notably ideas presented by Rousseau. But again, I just don’t think anyone pictures sickly weaklings, when he thinks of an Indian.
Maybe that’s another one of those ideas that so dumb that only an intellectual believes it.