Smallpox blankets - Cherokee Registry
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Smallpox blankets. In 1738, a major disaster struck the Cherokee when their towns were swept by an epidemic of smallpox. The Cherokee Chief Oconostota, accused the British of deliberately planting smallpox germs in the trade goods, they had shipped to the Cherokees. The desire of Whites to occupy Indian lands, and ...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 ...The British, the Indians, and Smallpox: What Actually Happened ... - jstor
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The British, the Indians, and Smallpox: What Actually Happened at Fort Pitt in 1763? Philip Ranlet. Hunter College. 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 ...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 ...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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