Benefits, Services, and Resources for Aboriginal Peoples
E-Books
Author/Creator
Nancy Smith
Description
Third edition.
From "A Very Remarkable Sickness": Epidemics in the Petit Nord, 1670 to 1846 by Paul Hacket.
Discusses the controversy over whether the British general deliberately distributed blankets infected with smallpox as a method of decimating the population of Delaware, Shawnee, and Mingo Indians surrounding Fort Pitt, Pennsylvania during Pontiac's War.