Epidemics and Indian Middlemen: Rethinking the Wars of the Iroquois, 1609-1653
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Karl H. Schlesier
Ethnohistory, vol. 23, no. 2, Spring, 1976, pp. 129-145
Description
Contends that the destruction or dispersal of many tribes during the seventeenth century did not result from the fur trade but rather from smallpox and other forces.