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invisiblearchives t1_j02mdum wrote

Just because the europeans didn't know them doesn't mean they didn't exist.

The monongahela people were a part of the mississipian culture, and had a massive population which was decimated by smallpox LONG before colonists crossed into the Ohio River Valley.

The OHR was so emptied by smallpox and migration that by the time of the beaver wars it was mostly empty.

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