Editing American Indian Wars (section)

==Legacy==
The 2010 United States Census found 2,932,248 Americans who identified themselves as being American Indian or Alaskan Native, about 0.9% of the US population. The Canada 2011 Census found 1,836,035 Canadians who identified themselves as being First Nations (or Inuit or Métis), about 4.3% of the Canadian population. No consensus exists on how many people lived in the Americas before the arrival of Europeans, but extensive research continues to be conducted. Contemporary estimates range from 2.1 million to 18 million people living on the North American continent prior to European colonization, but the US Census Bureau claimed in 1894 that North America was an almost empty continent in 1492 and that Amerindian populations "could not have exceeded much over 500,000", to which that claim has been debunked by the findings of several ancient civilizations such as the Mississippian and Puebloan cultures.

The number of Amerindians dropped to below half a million in the 19th century because of mass epidemics, conflict with Europeans, wars between tribes, assimilation, migration to Canada and Mexico, and declining birth rates. The main cause was infectious diseases carried by European explorers and traders. The United States Census Bureau (1894) provided their estimate of deaths due specifically to war during the 102 years between 1789 and 1891, including 8,500 Indians and 5,000 whites killed in "individual affairs".

To this day, Native Americans are left disadvantaged on their own lands, due to them being treated by the BIA as wards who are incapable of governing their own affairs and lacking the rights to control their lands without permission from a bureaucrat at the Department of the Interior, as the 56 million acres of land on their reservations are held in trust by the U.S. government.

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