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**HelenTay** · 12-01-2006, 09:19 AM

Oh, and the Europeans gave the indians blankets with the Polio virus and chickenpox as a gift on thanksgiving

Patently bullcrap...In 1763, Lord Amherst (commander of British forces in North America) did suggest using smallpox infected blankets to "innoculate" the Native American opposition during the French and Indian war, but there is no hard evidence that this was actually carried out.

Reprehensible idea, oh yeah, but not associated with the Thanksgiving holiday whatsoever.

12-01-2006, 09:19 AM	#6
HelenTay Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 402 Senior Member	Oh, and the Europeans gave the indians blankets with the Polio virus and chickenpox as a gift on thanksgiving Patently bullcrap...In 1763, Lord Amherst (commander of British forces in North America) did suggest using smallpox infected blankets to "innoculate" the Native American opposition during the French and Indian war, but there is no hard evidence that this was actually carried out. Reprehensible idea, oh yeah, but not associated with the Thanksgiving holiday whatsoever.
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