HistoryLink, the Online Encyclopedia of Washington State History, discusses the outbreak of smallpox in North America among the Native Americans of the Northwest coast in the 1770s.

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diseases, epidemics, smallpox

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indians, old world diseases, small pox, pacific northwest indians, pacific northwest cultures, lack of immunity

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