Wednesday, February 28, 2018

Death via small pox.........

Smallpox in the Blankets | HistoryNet

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Aug 15, 2017 - The epidemic of 1837–38 also spawned a narrative of deliberate white genocide against the original Americans: “smallpox in the blankets”—white Europeans and white Americans deliberately promoting the spread of smallpox among unsuspecting American Indians to clear them off the land. Smallpox in ...

Native American disease and epidemics - Wikipedia

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There has been some dissent to the accepted history that certain outbreaks of smallpox were caused by the intentional spreading of disease, for example when smallpox-infested blankets were intentionally given to Native Americans in 1763 at the Siege of Fort Pitt. Nineteenth century historian Francis Parkman, the first to ...

American History Myths Debunked: The Indians Weren't Defeated by ...

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May 20, 2012 - Historical stories point to Lord Amherst requesting that smallpox infected blankets be sent to the Indians, like this one in Carl Waldman's Atlas of the North American Indian about a siege of Fort Pitt by Chief Pontiac's forces during the summer of 1763: “Captain Simeon Ecuyer had bought time by sending ...

Did the U.S. Army Distribute Smallpox Blankets to Indians? Fabrication ...

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While acknowledging the "politicization" of the topic and evidence of other outrages committed against Native American tribes in times past, this study examines the different versions of the "smallpox blankets" episode published by Churchill between 1994 and 2003. The "preponderance of evidence" standard of proof ...

Colonial Germ Warfare : The Colonial Williamsburg Official History ...

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Smallpox had already broken out. On June 24, 1763, William Trent, a local trader, recorded in his journal that two Indian chiefs had visited the fort, urging the British to abandon the fight, but the British refused. Instead, when the Indians were ready to leave, Trent wrote: "Out of our regard for them, we gave them two Blankets ...

Smallpox blankets - Cherokee Registry

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In a letter to Colonel Henry Bouquet dated July 7, 1763, Amherst writes "Could it not be contrived to send the Small Pox among those disaffected tribes of Indians?" In a later letter to Bouquet Amherst repeats the idea: "You will do well to try to inoculate the Indians by means of blankets, as well as to try every other method ...

Jeffrey Amherst and Smallpox Blankets - UMass Amherst

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Despite his fame, Jeffrey Amherst's name became tarnished by stories of smallpox-infected blankets used as germ warfare against American Indians. These stories are reported, for example, in Carl Waldman's Atlas of the North American Indian [NY: Facts on File, 1985]. Waldman writes, in reference to a siege of Fort Pitt ...

[PDF]The British, the Indians, and Smallpox - Journals

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by P Ranlet - ‎2000 - ‎Cited by 23 - ‎Related articles
An entrenched part of the multicultural canon can be summed up by quoting from a book intended for undergraduate college students: "In the. 1760s the British at Fort Pitt gave blankets from the smallpox hospital to. Delaware Indians as a form of germ warfare."' The story has been repeated time and again and has now ...

Genocide & Intent Of The Infected Blankets | Native American Netroots

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Aug 10, 2009 - Plains Indian Smallpox. Indian genocide is a controversial subject on the internet and on this site. Genocide and Holocaust are words that are easy to throw around, often to grab a reader's attention, but proving them is something else. What one group calls genocide, another group may call progress.

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