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Wasn’t it the American Indians who distributed blankets from infected individuals into settler camps, to make disease kill them?


6 posted on 02/10/2014 8:54:53 AM PST by James C. Bennett (An Australian.)
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To: James C. Bennett
Wasn’t it the American Indians who distributed blankets from infected individuals into settler camps, to make disease kill them?

Nope, other way around.

The Indians didn't weave cloth very much, certainly not enough to make blankets.

Blankets were a common trade item from white traders to Indians in return mostly for furs.

Sometimes they were given to the Indians as "presents".

These were usually the ones with smallpox to infect the Indians.

After the Crooked Walk, in Pennsylvania, Tom Quick, AKA Tom Quick, Indian Killer, AKA Tom Quick, Avenger of the Delaware, watched as Indians he grew up with, shoot, tomahawk, and scalp his father while his father was still alive.

The Quick family had always been friends of the Delaware tribe, inviting many into their house in the winter, and had nothing to do with the Crooked Walk.

The Indians were rightfully pissed over the Crooked Walk, and took it out on every white the could.

Tom vowed to kill every Indian he could.

Throughout his life he killed 99 Indians, then wiped out most of the Delaware after he died.

The Indians hated him so much, they dug up his grave and chopped his body into pieces, displaying the chunks on poles throughout their settlements. Tom had died of smallpox.

19 posted on 02/10/2014 9:39:44 AM PST by Mogger (Independence, better fuel economy and performance with American made synthetic oil.)
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