Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site dartvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!harpo!decvax!dartvax!dbkay 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 References: <897@ihuxm.UUCP>, <734@dalcs.UUCP> Organization: Dartmouth College Lines: 21 [] 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...