Smallpox-infected blankets a myth

“As part of the construction of the New American Identity in the years following WW2, it was decided to demonize the Western European population and praise the Siberian immigrants who had come before them. As a means to this end, the noble savage myth was created, along with the notion that the poor Amerinds were victims of genocide when Europeans gave them smallpox-infected blankets.

“This too turns out to be false because no documented evidence of smallpox blanket distribution exists except for a suggestion in a letter, but we know they got smallpox after attacking a hospital.”

http://www.amerika.org/science/another-myth-dies-american-indians-were-not-given-smallpox-infected-blankets/

Link at http://www.woodpilereport.com/

The idea of European destruction of noble savages predates the 1950s, first appearing in the very late 1800s and early 1900s as upper-middle classes of the Northeast United States began demands for civilized treatment of defeated Plains Indians. Agricultural Indian tribes of the Northeast and Mid-West had already been eliminated, and slave-owning tribes of the Southeast shipped to Oklahoma, by treaties voted on by members of the Five Civilized Tribes. The slave-owning tribes suffered another defeat from the Civil War, so their nations faced destruction by the Great White Father in Washington. With no Indians of their own to save, Northeast Progressives decided Westerners must be held to account for destruction of the Abanaki, Assateague, Erie, Etchemin and others.

The idea of “smallpox-infected blankets” flies in the face of logic. Which presidential administrations approved the idea? From where were the infected blankets procured? How were they delivered, and by whom?

Biological warfare against the Noble Savage …. another Progressive myth.