Turns out it was smallpox, not influenza... On 1/10/07, frank theriault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There was nothing unthinking about it. > > Blankets of sick white soldiers (sick from influenza, which the > Europeans knew was much more deadly to the Native population than > themselves) were distributed among the Natives in an early documented > attempt at germ warfare. > > They may not have known what germs were, but they knew about passing > on deadly illness. > > In addition, the slaughter, almost to extinction, of the American > Bison was a conscientious attempt to eliminate something that, both > physically and spiritually, was necessary to Native survival in the > West. > > cheers, > frank > > > -- > "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson >
-- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
