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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
In April, the Navajos had 321 people infected.

Obviously they got it from the blankets the Indian Agent gave them. Darn White Man!

31 posted on 05/03/2020 4:15:16 PM PDT by BipolarBob (Howard Beale "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore.")
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To: BipolarBob

The old Blanket myth again. It keeps making the rounds.

https://www.historynet.com/smallpox-in-the-blankets.htm

https://quod.lib.umich.edu/p/plag/5240451.0001.009/—did-the-us-army-distribute-smallpox-blankets-to-indians?rgn=main;view=fulltext


50 posted on 05/03/2020 5:06:18 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: BipolarBob

(Howard Beale “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take this anymore.”)

“When you’re slapped you will take it and like it!”-Bogart to Joe Cairo (Peter Lorre in Maltese Falcon)


55 posted on 05/03/2020 5:17:16 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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