-=> On 07-04-19  10:28,  Gregory Deyss <=-
 -=> spoke to Dale Shipp about Re: War or Planefuls of <=-

 DS> I also deplore the passing out of smallpox laden
 DS> blankets to our Native American people, and the forceable removal of
 DS> their children where they were placed in English schools and forbidden
 DS> to speak their language.

 GD> Given the politicization of this topic, it seems necessary to
 GD> acknowledge at the outset that far too many instances of the U.S. Army
 GD> committing outrages against various Indian tribes can be documented. A
 GD> number of these were explicitly genocidal in intent. It is not the
 GD> intention of this author to deny that simple fact. However, as the
 GD> eminent Cherokee  sociologist Russell Thornton
 GD> has observed of Ward Churchill's fabricated version of the 1837
 GD> smallpox epidemic.

 GD> "The history is bad enough, there's no need to embellish it"

Who said I was refering to some 1837 epidemic.  The use of smallpox
blankets at Fort Pitt in 1763 has been documented.  Take a look at Wiki,
native american disease.

                               Dale Shipp
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