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To: ex-Texan
In 1838, the Blackfeet were decimated by small pox spread intentionally by U.S. troops using infected blankets. We were the first target of biological warfare in world history.

No flames, please...
...but the (limited) information I had indicated that stories of infected blankets by the US were the fevered imagination of Ward Churchill...
although they had in fact been used by the French.

Do you have any documentation for this claim?

Cheers!

109 posted on 08/14/2005 1:02:20 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: grey_whiskers
Click the link below and read very deep into the link. There are more links on the link. You also may Goooogle it for yourself ("Blackfoot + smallpox blankets"). When my son was in college on the east coast he met relatives of the men who planned the smallpox blanket scenario. They apologized profusely. But that does not make up for the genocide, now does it?

Link Here

110 posted on 08/14/2005 1:48:59 AM PDT by ex-Texan (Mathew 7:1 through 6)
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To: grey_whiskers
Found this article just published today: Was It Genocide?
111 posted on 08/14/2005 3:07:16 AM PDT by ex-Texan (Mathew 7:1 through 6)
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