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Article: Requiem for a genocide.(decline of native populations)
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- The National Interest
- Article date:
- June 22, 2004
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IN HIS Brief Description of New York (London, 1670), Daniel Denton says, in the quaint English of a son of a Presbyterian manse on 17th-century Long Island,
To say something of the Indians, there is
now but few upon the Island, and those few
no ways hurtful but rather serviceable to the
English, and it is to be admired, how strangely
they have decreased by the Hand of God,
since the English first settling of those parts;
for since my time [Denton was born in
1644], where there were six towns, they are
reduced to two small villages, and it hath
generally been observed, that where the
English come to settle, a Divine Hand makes
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