“By Amherst’s direction, hostile Indian tribes were provided with blankets contaminated with smallpox: “Could it not be contrived to send the smallpox among those disaffected tribes of Indians? We must, on this occasion, use every stratagem in our power to reduce them” (14).” RacismNative American Genocide Book:Viruses, Plagues, and History Source: Viruses, Plagues, and History