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1837- 15,0000 Indians Die of Smallp

A Drawing from the time

A total of 15,000 Indians from the Mandan, Hidasa and Anka tribes died from a deadly outbreak of smallpox. It was thought that a steamboat from the American Fur Company introduced the smallpox