Reply #13: It's not so much a question of time as in the long term starvation killed more and made it [View All]

[mrcheerful]

impossible for native americans to continue the fight. Remember, native americans that survived the small pox epidemic had children that were less likely to catch small pox because they had an immunity to small pox. Thats why small pox killed so many at once, they had never been exposed to the disease. Your also missing other factors of the bison slaughter, it forced native americans onto reservations were starvation continued under government agents who would steal the best from the people and give them less or spoiled food.