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To: Ilaine who wrote (1990)	1/9/2003 5:08:59 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15987

One problem is that too many tribes were nomadic, and considered a broad swathe of territory as "their land", even though they could not hold it, other tribes often disputed it, and they could not put it to productive use. In a way, those tribes were like aristocratic drones: as the land hungry peasants of Europe clambered for property to homestead, they disdained their pleas, preferring to sit on "their land", and when these poor peasants tried to put the land to productive use, they preferred to make war upon them, rather than seek a more peaceable a solution. There was reason for resentment on both sides......

To: Ilaine who wrote (1990)	1/10/2003 5:38:19 AM
From: zonder	Read Replies (6) \| Respond to of 15987

Oh I see. So newcomers into America did not really fight the Indians and back them into a corner? They fought eachother, died of diseases, and sold their land for money hm? Are you completely out of touch with reality??? Oh and regarding the unfortunate smallpox epidemic among Indians, I suppose you are oblivious to how the European settlers DELIBERATELY infected Indians with the blankets of smallpox patients? At the time of the Pontiac rebellion in 1763, Sir Jeffrey Amherst, the Commander-in-Chief of the British forces in North America, wrote to Colonel Henry Bouquet 'Could it not be contrived to send smallpox among these disaffected tribes of Indians? We must use every stratagem in our power to reduce them.' The colonel replied, 'I will try to inoculate the [Native American tribe] with some blankets that may fall in their hands, and take care not to get the disease myself.' Smallpox decimated the Native Americans, who had never been exposed to the disease before and had no immunity. bbc.co.uk