re: #114 Buck

When you read it, discount the “Smallpox blanket genocide”. It was a Hoax, made up entirely by our friend Ward Churchill.

Ah, no. The “smallpox blanket” story is much older, and is (supposedly) based on some correspondence from a British general in 1740-something. The letter is no longer in its proper box in the British Museum, but that doesn’t mean that it’s a hoax.

Now, Ward Churchill did, indeed, completely make up an “Army smallpox blanket” story regarding the Mandan Epidemic.