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Didn't something like 3/4 of the east coast American Indians get decimated by diseases like smallpox and TB after contact?
If these estimates are in anyway true, the lands would suddenly be "empty" because all the villagers had the Age of Sail coof.
Most of the plains Indians just died. There are reports of villages where every single person was just dead.
There is suggestion that this caused the buffalo numbers to explode because of the cessation of hunting.
Of course the whites then shot them all for skins and the tongues, leaving the meat to rot.
Almost the entire Australian Aboriginal population of Tasmania died of small pox. Most Australians will tell you that they were killed by genocide in massacres. Which they were not.
If you force them to accept the diseases as the cause, they'll blame it on intentional actions by the evil colonizers, despite the fact that it was hundreds of years before the germ theory of disease when the highly-educated were experimenting with bloodletting and avoiding areas with 'stagnant' air.
Smallpox had done its damage long before humans - any of us - understood what smallpox is or how to prevent its spread.