Thanks Norbydog, that was my question too. Which diseases went from Native American to European settlers?

As many Whites in North America, I am descended from Mayflower passengers on both sides of my family. I know from reading about their struggles that many perished from disease before the ship landed. Was amazing that they lived at all prior to Native contact. Remember reading they buried their dead in unmarked graves so the Native peoples would not see how their numbers had diminished from disease.

Native people did give Whites tobacco. A plant with the most addictive drug known to man, nicotine. Smoking tobacco to get nicotine kills about half a million Americans a year...so Native folks are still fighting back.

White folks countered with booze, but booze only kills about a hundred thousand Americans a year...

Might not be long before the Native peoples finally win their continent back if we keep on smoking.....

Ron