How many Native Americans were killed between 1600 & 1900?

Scholars can't determine how many people were here pre-Columbus. It varies from 10 million up to 100 million. First contact in north America was in 1540. Almost 100 years later, French and English people came and settled in Canada and the east coast. The “mound builders” had disappeared. read more

By the time 1600 came around. It was estimated that 1/3 of the Native American population of an estimated population between 2 million to 4 million before 1492 was living in all of the Americas. It was estimated when 1900 came around, it was estimated only 1/3 Native Americans of now the United States, Canada and the Caribbean were left. read more

The issue of genocide and American Indian history has been contentious. Many writers see the massive depopulation of the indigenous population of the Americas after 1492 as a clear-cut case of the genocide. read more

While some California tribes were settled on reservations, others were hunted down and massacred by 19th century American settlers. It is estimated that at least some 4,500 people of the Population of Native California suffered violent deaths between 1849 and 1870. read more