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POX AMERICANA -- The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775 - 82

Posted by Sabertooth
On 11/16/2001 1:25 PM PST with 15 comments

IMdiversity.com ^ | October, 2001 | Elizabeth Fenn
The following is a review of Pox Americana by the Native American Village Staff… During the years when the Revolutionary War transformed thirteen former British colonies into a new nation, a horrifying epidemic of smallpox was transforming -- or ending -- the lives of tens of thousands of people across the American continent. This great pestilence easily surpassed the war in terms of deaths, yet because of our understandable preoccupation with the Revolution and its aftermath, it has remained virtually unknown to us. Elizabeth A. Fenn is the first historian to reveal how deeply Variola affected the outcome of ...

Why ping me?

My savage and pagan ancestors were decimated by my savage and christian ancestors.For USA citizens who can trace their familial history back at least 100 years or more,such is the truth.

For such as I,who heard the words of a step-grandfather who talked to me of his life growing up the son of a Cherokee squaw and a BIA reservation master, what is the point?

I vividly remember my quarter breed mother being ostracised by my fathers family in the 1960s.I learned of racial hatred at my fraternal white grandmothers knee.She was always too stupid to realise she taught me to hate her, instead of my mother.I look caucasion, at first glance.My daughter is even a blonde, and has no physical hint of her matriarchal heritage.

This is all history, and we should learn the lessons tendered, but not continue the battles and wars of past savagery.How would I choose the right side?

As a "mixed breed",I find it incredibly insulting that people try to re-write history to make one side or the other look more noble or moral, vs the evil other.I do not see the gain for anyone in ignoring the truth of the depravity of my savage ancestors, no matter which "side" they were on.

I refuse to pay for the sins of my fore-fathers.I am only on the hook for what I say and do now.And I say now, all the legal inhabitants of the USA have a new enemy to defeat.If we do not hang together, we will surely hang separately.

POX AMERICANA -- The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775 - 82
			Posted by Sabertooth On 11/16/2001 1:25 PM PST with 15 comments IMdiversity.com ^ \| October, 2001 \| Elizabeth Fenn The following is a review of Pox Americana by the Native American Village Staff… During the years when the Revolutionary War transformed thirteen former British colonies into a new nation, a horrifying epidemic of smallpox was transforming -- or ending -- the lives of tens of thousands of people across the American continent. This great pestilence easily surpassed the war in terms of deaths, yet because of our understandable preoccupation with the Revolution and its aftermath, it has remained virtually unknown to us. Elizabeth A. Fenn is the first historian to reveal how deeply Variola affected the outcome of ...