Population history of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas
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The population figure of indigenous peoples of the Americas before the 1492 Spanish voyage of Christopher Columbus has proven difficult to establish. Scholars rely on archaeological data and written records from European settlers. Most scholars writing at the end of the 19th century estimated that the pre-Columbian population was as low as 10 million; by the end of the 20th century most scholars gravitated to a middle estimate of around 50 million, with some historians arguing for an estimate of 100 million or more.
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See also
- List of Indian massacres
- List of Indian reserves in Canada by population
- Amazonas before the Inca Empire
- Classification of indigenous peoples of the Americas
- Conquest of the Desert
- First Nations
- Genocides in the Americas
- Guatemalan genocide
- Handbook of South American Indians
- Population of Canada
- Population of Native California
- Selknam genocide
- Smallpox epidemics in the Americas
- Trail of Tears
- Uncontacted peoples
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