7 Generations: A Plains Cree Saga
Compilation of the four titles in the series.
Compilation of the four titles in the series.
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.
Describes Lieut. William Francis Butler’s journey, in the winter of 1870, to distribute small pox medicines and instructions for treatment of the disease to people and communities between the Red River Settlement and the Rockies; includes some details about Cree, Métis, and Blackfoot peoples. Entire issue on one PDF file, scroll to page 24.
Focusses on the first-hand accounts of William Tomison, Hudson's Bay Company inland master, of epidemic in 1781 and 1782 at Cumberland House.
Author looks at archival evidence in the form letters between General Amherst and his officers and others under his command and concludes that Amherst did order smallpox-infected blankets and handkerchiefs be distributed to the Native Americans surrounding Fort Pitt during Pontiac's Rebellion.