Smallpox and Schoolcraft
Why Henry flipped sides
Smallpox came to the Saginaw Valley Ojibwe around 1750 when a war party returned from Montreal fighting on the French side in the French and Indian War. It came back to them in 1832, the year of the Indian Vaccination Act. Smallpox vaccinations were being administered to certain tribes, but not others. Lewis Cass decided who would live and who would di…
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