American Indian Holocaust and Survival: A Population History Since 1492 is a demographic overview of North American Indian history describing in detail the holocaust that, even today, white Americans tend to dismiss as an unfortunate concomitant of Manifest Destiny. They wish to forget that, as Euro-Americans invaded North America and prospered in the "New World," the numbers of Indigenous peoples declined sharply; entire Nations, often in the space of a few years, were "wiped from the face of the earth." Russell Thornton is Professor of Sociology in the University of Minnesota.