Hizztorian Wrote:
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> Chief slap a pee pee Wrote:
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> > white christmas Wrote:
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> > Thanks for the phony meme. It was in fact
> disease
> > that cut down the Indian population, not
> murder.
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> Yes, disease. Worried about limited resources, Sir
> Jeffrey Amherst, commander-in-chief of British
> forces in North America, wrote to Colonel Henry
> Bouquet at Fort Pitt: “You will do well to try
> to inoculate the Indians [with smallpox] by means
> of blankets, as well as to try every other method,
> that can serve to extirpate this execrable
> race.”
> Settlers distributed the contaminated blankets to
> Native Americans, and soon enough smallpox began
> to spread.
> Aside from bioterrorism, Native Americans also
> suffered violence both directly at the hands of
> the state and indirectly when the state encouraged
> or ignored citizen violence against them.
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