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Smallpox epidemics hit the Great Plains from Kansas to the Northwest Coast.
Date: 1837
Epidemics & disease
Indigenous
Colonization
The Blackfoot and Mandan communities are particularly affected, with the Mandan community being almost completely destroyed by the virus.
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