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Yellow fever decimates the Wampanoag and other local Native communities.
Date: 1616
Indigenous
Epidemics & disease
An estimated 45,000 people, which is two-thirds of the Native communities' population in what is now called Massachusetts and Rhode Island, are killed by yellow fever.