==Recent History== 
 As is evident from the section heading, this section appears to be a little biased and unreferenced.  I copy edited for clarity and removed some of the worst of the assumptions, but the original writer seemed to have an unsupported affinity for: 
 #disease 
 #growing equality of the sexes due to white man's influence 

 While I could see at least some aspects of these two points being true (particularly with disease), I wouldn't think that they would be that clearly cause and effect.