Theos-Talk Archives (March 2006 Message tt00225)

krsanna wrote:
> I'll look for an article published around 2003 acknowledging that 
> the U.S. Army infected blankets with smallpox before giving them to 
> the Cherokee, who had been rounded up at gunpoint in the middle of 
> the winter.  It made news in the Native American community at the 
> time I worked in Native American Studies at a state university.  The 
> acknowledgement was not widely published in the predominantly White 
> media.  
	Smallpox was definitely transmitted by blankets during the French and 
Indian War. Of course, by then, an estimated 90-95% of the Native 
American population in what is now the continental United States had 
already been wiped out by measles, smallpox, and the Bubonic Plague.

	Bart