Globalization and disease Eurasian diseases to the Americas was that many more native peoples were killed by disease and germs than by the colonists' use of guns or other weapons. Scholars estimate that over a period of four centuries, epidemic diseases wiped out as much as 90 percent of the American indigenous populations. In Europe during the age of exploration, diseases such as smallpox, measles and tuberculosis (TB) had already been introduced centuries before through trade with Asia and Africa. People had developed some antibodies to these and other diseases from the Eurasian continent. When the Europeans traveled to new lands, they carried
Indigenous police in Canada Indigenous police in Canada Indigenous Police in Canada are police forces responsible for public order on First Nations across Canada. The Canadian federal government created First Nations police forces to provide greater sensitivity to the needs and issues of policing in First Nations communities. Past conflicts, including some resulting in deaths of aboriginal citizens, have created tension between non-aboriginal police forces and aboriginal people. In 1992, the First Nations Chiefs of Police Association (FNCPA) was created to co-ordinate input from other police forces in dealing with aboriginal policing issues. A list of First Nations police forces: City police forces have