On 6 Sep 2005 at 12:45, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
> I do not think we disagree on essentials, but I beg
to differ on this one.
> The US did not wipe the Native population more than
Russia did the same to
> native populations of Asia. Most of the "wiping" of
the American natives
> occurred due to the lack immunity to Eurasian
diseases, which was not the
> factor in Russian colonisation of Asia.
I'm not going to get into a protracted discussion of this but if you think the deaths of 95% of the native North American population was not deliberate then you need to read more about that topic.
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Just to do a comparison, these are the figures on the largest Native American population sizes in the US vs. the stats for the largest indigenous groups in Russia, using the 1990 US census and the 1989 USSR census. Draw your own conclusions! ;) The Bashkir population alone is almost as high as the ENTIRE US native population.
US Data:
1990 Census Tribe
Number Percent
All American Indians....1,937,391 100.0 Cherokee..................369,035 19.0 Navajo....................225,298 11.6 Sioux ....................107,321 5.5 Chippewa..................105,988 5.5 Choctaw....................86,231 4.5 Pueblo ....................55,330 2.9 Apache.....................53,330 2.8 Iroquois ..................52,557 2.7 Lumbee ....................50,888 2.6 Creek......................45,872 2.4
http://www.census.gov/population/socdemo/race/indian/ailang1.txt
Russia Data:
Ethnic group Population
Tatar 5,554,601 Bashkir 1,673,389 Chuvash 1,637,094 Chechen 1,360,253 Mordvinian 843,350 Avar 814,473 Udmurt 636,906 Mari 604,298
http://www.nupi.no/cgi-win/Russland/etnisk.exe?total
Nu, zayats, pogodi!
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