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From: daw@houxs.UUCP (David "Cowboy Dan" Wolverton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Europeans vs. Native Americans (was Volvo vs Apple)
Message-ID: <579@houxs.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 27-Oct-87 11:09:01 EST
Article-I.D.: houxs.579
Posted: Tue Oct 27 11:09:01 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 30-Oct-87 01:52:04 EST
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Summary: there's more to it

In article <855@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU>, geb@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU (Gordon E. Banks) writes:
> (The diseases the white man brought killed more natives than
> their weapons, incidentally.)
Actually, they practiced an early form of "biological warfare": the whites
spread the diseases by giving blankets and other personal items from infected
people to uninfected Native Americans.  Therefore I consider the diseases
you mention (e.g. smallpox) to have been one of the weapons.

This discussion does not belong in comp.sys.mac.  Please move it elsewhere.

Dave Wolverton
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