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From: dbkay@dartvax.UUCP (David B. Kay)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Native Americans
Message-ID: <774@dartvax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 29-Feb-84 13:31:03 EST
Article-I.D.: dartvax.774
Posted: Wed Feb 29 13:31:03 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 2-Mar-84 22:48:50 EST
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Organization: Dartmouth College
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  As it happens, the giving of blankets infected with smallpox
to the Indians was not really a widespread procedure.  The chief
(sorry) perpetrator of this practice was Lord Jeffery Amherst,
founder of the noble (?) institution which today bears his
name:
  "Oh Lord Jeffery Amherst was a soldier of the king
   and he came from across the see-ee-ee-ee-ee,
   for the Frenchman and the Indian he didn't do a thing
   [A pleasant euphamism for genocide]
   in the wilds of this wild country-ee-ee-ee-ee,
   in the wilds of this wild conntry..."
 
  To commemorate this brave practice of the founder, students
of Amherst wave little purple blankets at their opponents in
football games...tasteful, eh?
                               D.B. Kay
                               Dartmouth College [founded FOR the Indians]
 
-Look on my works, oh ye mighty, and giggle...