Native Bidaské: Why Native History Is Under Attack with Shannon O’Loughlin

Focus on solutions! Too much wasted time on what is not right.

First Nations history is under attack for the simple reason that reconciliation will have to eventually deal with the deliberate distribution of smallpox as a bio weapon against First Nations tribe all across North America from the 1600s into the 1800s and into the 20th century. The British were taught how to vaccinate for smallpox in the 1500s by the Sheik of Morocco. It was a simple needle jab, the same as today except not with an intravenous needle. The British quickly turned vaccination into a bioweapon complex. First push the First Nations off their traditional farming and hunting grounds. Then give them white flour, sugar and alcohol. Then introduce the smallpox bioweapon using already vaccinated traders to trade smallpox infected blankets to First Nations tribes who were suffering weakened immune systems and heightened susceptibility as a result of eating hypoglycemic foods provided by the British. President Ulysses s Grant signed an executive order ordering the use of smallpox to be used against the Western tribes to clear a path for the railroad. First they killed all the buffalo and then they dropped smallpox on the First Nations. The largest decrease in First Nations population across North America occurred during smallpox via weapons attacks by the British and later Canadian and American governments. In Canada it's how the trap lines were converted from being run by First Nations into white settler hands.