way to describe it. And that’s the way it needs to be described in the history books." See also Indigenous peoples in Canada Native Americans in the United States History of Native Americans in the United States List of Indian massacres List of Indian reserves in Canada by population List of Indian reservations in the United States Amazonas before the Inca Empire Classification of indigenous peoples of the Americas Conquest of the Desert Genocide of indigenous peoples Genocides in the Americas Guatemalan genocide Selknam genocide Smallpox epidemics in the Americas Trail of Tears Indigenous peoples Uncontacted peoples Notes References Notes Bibliography Books Royal, Robert. 1492 and All That: Political Manipulations of History. Washington, D.C.: Ethics and Public Policy Center, 1992. Stearn, E. Wagner and Allen E. Stearn. The Effect of Smallpox on the Destiny of the Amerindian. Boston: Humphries, 1945. Online sources Lewy, Guenter. "Were American Indians the Victims of Genocide?", History News Network, originally published in Commentary. Lord, Lewis. , 10 August 1997. Rummel, R.J. Death by Government, Chapter 3: Pre-Twentieth Century Democide Stutz, Bruce. Megadeath in Mexico Discover, 21 February 2006. White, Matthew. "The Annihilation of the Native Americans". Amateur website, but reports data from scholarly sources. Jeffrey Amherst and Smallpox Blankets "Lord Jeffrey Amherst's letters discussing germ warfare against American Indians" Retrieved February 2007 Further reading Cameron, Catherine M., Paul Kelton, and Alan C. Swedlund (eds.) (2015). Beyond Germs: Native Depopulation in North America. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press. Sletcher, Michael 'North American Indians', in Will Kaufman and Heidi Macpherson, eds., Britain and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History, (2 vols., Oxford, 2005). External links Aboriginal peoples populations – Statistics Canada Article by Russell Thornton on American Indian population history in North America Article by Alan Rinding on Brazil's Indians Colonial Brazil: Portuguese, Tupi, etc Indigenous Genocide in the Brazilian Amazon The theft of Native Americans' land, in one animated map Indian land cession by years Pope Francis apologises for Catholic crimes against indigenous peoples during the colonisation of the Americas (2015) When Native Americans Were Slaughtered in the Name of ‘Civilization’. History. March 2, 2018. History of indigenous peoples of the Americas Native American history Colonization history of the United States Native American-related controversies Human rights abuses in the United States Persecution Ethnic cleansing in the Americas Demographic history by country or region Christianity and violence