about these various reports is that they are about deaths at the facilities. It does not take into account he children who were horribly sickened or injured and were then sent home prior to dying. It was a common practice by the people running the facilities to do this in order to keep down the numbers reported as dying in their custody.
Consensus about numbers regarding what has been done to the indigenous population of the United States can be difficult for several reasons with one of the main ones being that they weren't thought to be important enough to be kept. The US was generally more accurate and interested in keeping accurate records of gold, silver, lands taken and buffalo kills than they were the people themselves.
However having said that the Wiki machine says that from 1492-1900 the population loss was 96% and 98% of their ancestral lands were taken. It was not a process of "assimilation" as some people claim(ed) but clearly was instead "extermination".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_genocide_in_the_United_States
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