Are you sure it was 90-95%? Anyways, there's no doubt that Europe had many generations to become resistant to the diseases since the middle-ages (which some resurfaced) and the possible heartier health that the Indians may have had not being crowded together in cities, and not being as stressed as early settlers to suddenly realize they weren't coming to a ready-built city here. As soon as they got off the boat, they had to create some kind of shelters for themselves. All the tree felling and construction without much food or knowledge of how to survive must have been mentally and physically draining.
The mosquitos along the Susquehanna are mentioned in this book as a huge reason for the passage of frustration to both Indians and Whites. They also have, in PA, a large number of plants that make you quite itchy - especially poison ivy. I'm sure that both races helped each other, though not always honestly and fairly. The advent of the vaccine in the mid-1800's was enough to keep some things like smallpox a bit more under control, didn't it? However, some of the things used for medicinal purposes ended up being more damaging than helpful. For instance, bleeding a patient with leeches. Or, wrapping them in tree bark. Beethoven complained of some of the same problems of constipation, digestion problems, various internal organs not working properly.
Back then, it was a sort of blind sided affair on both sides. You have the Indians that are used to the weather, and yet are forced at times to work as slaves. They are hurt physically, do too much work and die from exhaustion. Or, whites that are captured and put through a system of degradation of long travels/beatings before they become slaves, too - and the stress levels became high because of mental stress and realization that both sides are fairly brutal sometimes. Some of the Indian tribes were extremely brutal. Take the Comache, for instance. You have a cabin of white folk going about cooking dinner and the next minute - hatchet time.
Well, there's Daniel Boone - he just ignored it all. I think he thought - ok if I get caught by a tribe that doesn't like me, I'll fight valiantly and die but that isn't going to keep me cabin bound. He explored. And, the party of Louis and Clark explored and mapped the USA as it is mapped today. Before then, we had trails and people generally didn't worry about mapping. Once the USA was mapped, then the land was chartered and divided and thus the expansion of the West and the unfortunate unfairness of an occupying force.
The UN is currently in charge of satellite mapping the entire world. Of sectioning states - much like the old roman 'states.' And, of course, putting ID chips in people who are willing and some unwilling. Right now in Indonesia (Jakarta?) there is a system in place by the UN to input chips in people who have HIV/AIDS. Now, if this system takes off and is medically approved - what is to keep others from being tracked and followed. Basically, everyone's movements will be followed and government will be much more bothersome than the set up of the USA government at the beginning of colonization.
At colonization, you had a choice to either mingle or not (until the whites became more and more populous and took over entire areas of the indians). With the UN system - it's not a matter of choice. Where you LIVE NOW is the place that is being set into a map/plat. You can't just pick up your house and move to the prarie. Even the prarie is mapped.
Gordon Brown, Barack Obama, Mr. Sarkozy, and others have recently made reference to One World Order and are for the idea. They basically are a 'citizen of the world' as Barack said to his Berlin fans. A citizen of the world is a citizen who accepts the compromise of sovereignty of country to the sovereignty of a world system. On the outset it looks wonderful and peaceful. But, at what cost. Giving up your financial system? YES. Giving up your religious rights and freedoms? YES. Giving up privacy? YES. Giving up medical choice (if you can be sterilized, forced to abort, euthanized when older).
This isn't wonderful to me and I prefer the way it is. So we have people that want to keep things the way they are with the Constitution. And, people who want a 'One World Order.' That's the basic premise of the great divide that now stands before us. I'm sure Intellectual Property will enter all of this in terms of reparations - if it gets to that point. The Intellectual Property of all people, though, has been greatly damaged by this One World Order because we are ALREADY SPIED ON. They won't admit to current damage. Only past. But the damage done now is far greater and extensive.