Is it true that US citizens used to constantly give smallpox blankets to Native

Question: Is it true that US citizens used to constantly give smallpox blankets to Native Americans for centuries!?

I understand that they way that the US citizens wiped out the Native population was by giving them blankets with smallpox on them!. Was this done for all the time that the US was occupying North America!? The only documented case of this that I have ever seen was Sand Creek!. Can someone please give me some other documented incidences of this!?Www@QuestionHome@Com

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>The only documented case of this that I have ever seen was Sand Creek

Surely Sand Creek was an old-fashioned massacre not an example of biological warfare!?

For documents search Ward Churchill, Mandan and Fort Clark!.

There are a number of claims and counter-claims of liberal falsification and right-wing bias!.

http://www!.plagiary!.org/smallpox-blanket!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Sad but true!. Im afraid that I cant give you documented evidence though!. A form of grem warfare!. As for it happening for centuries, I doubt that!. Many Native Americans died form disease because they were not immune to the Europeans diseases!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

yes, but i cannot give you a documented link off the top of head, but i took one native amer!. history/sociology, one native amer!. anthropology class, and another one i can't remember the name for my arts/humanities credits!.!.!. it is well documentedWww@QuestionHome@Com

no, this has been disproved many times!. NOBODY EVER gave small pox to the indians thru blankets!. They didn't know why the natives were dying!. Obviously European disease killed them but they didn't hand out blankets or sneeze of food or anything with the hope of killing natives!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

No, it isn't true!. You seem to be forgetting that white people were not immune to smallpox so if the touched infected blankets they ran the risk of getting it themselves!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

OMG that can't be true!.Www@QuestionHome@Com