[lbo-talk] Churchill update: Thomas Brown can cheer

[tully]

It was the Mandan Indians in the upper Missouri River regions that 
Churchill claimed were given smallpox blankets by the US Army.  
Apparently the source cited by Churchill had no such mention of US 
Army involvement.  The site quickly googled below has the same words 
posted on many other sites plus a few links to the other claims 
against Churchill including inciting violence, plagarism, art theft, 
etc.  

http://tim.2wgroup.com/blog/archives/000889.html

The campaign of the right against Churchill is vicious and political.  
I'm glad to hear that more in academia and elsewhere are coming out 
in defense of Churchill.  

--tully

On Friday 25 March 2005 01:44 pm, Charles Brown wrote:
>Doug Henwood
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>Thomas Brown, a professor of sociology at Lamar University, in
> Texas, has argued that Mr. Churchill has falsely asserted that the
> U.S. Army knowingly distributed smallpox-infested blankets to
> Mexican Indians in 1837. Mr. Brown has written: "One must
> reluctantly conclude that Mr. Churchill fabricated the most crucial
> details of his genocide story."
>
>^^^^^^
>
>CB: If I can get a clarification, is Thomas Brown claiming that the
> U.S. Army distributed smallpox-infested blankets to Mexican
> Indians, but that the U.S. Army didn't know they were
> smallpox-infested ? Or is Brown saying the U.S. Army just did not
> in fact distribute smallpox-infested blankets to Mexican Indians at
> all ?
>
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