06/17/2026
‘The Myth of the Smallpox Blankets’
Aboriginal Mythology -- "The Smallpox Blanket Genocide" (Canadian version -- The setting is the late 1750s): "There were worrying rumours that there had been a massacre of British prisoners and their women and children at Fort William Henry by Montcalm’s troops and their Indian allies. If the rumours were true, how vengeful would the English be? It was unsettling. "In fact,...
Aboriginal Mythology — “The Smallpox Blanket Genocide” (Canadian version — The setting is the late 1750s): “There were worrying rumours that there had been a massacre…