Indigenous People and Smallpox in Argentina's Desert Campaign, 1879–1881.

Argentina's 1879–85 Desert Campaign formed the basis for dispossessing the Indigenous community of its southern frontier. This article argues that the Desert Campaign should be understood as much as an epidemiological event as a military one, focusing on the most intense phase of a smallpox epidemic...

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Published in:	Ethnohistory Vol. 71; no. 1; pp. 113 - 139
Main Author:	Christensen, Robert
Format:	Article
Published:	Duke University Press Jan2024
Subjects:	Argentina Indigenous peoples Eviction Smallpox Mapuche (South American people)
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