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Retaliation For Small Pox Blankets

Fort Pueblo 1854, retaliation swift, no one was toying. We rebels thought the British Empire annoying Nonchalant agents ignored the plan with noncaring eyes. It is a misnomer that the Europeans are the good guys. We were the bad guys during the Indian Wars, totally unfair. Giving smallpox laden blankets to the natives without care. Making our friends our enemies, a move that was dire. Making us less than people, a mean kind of fire. In retaliation for the small pox deaths, White Earth led a raid. He brought Apache and Utes in, to slay as if it were a parade. They came to many a dwelling, and killed quite a few. Dire displace of a woman and her sons, count of two.

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