Sorry, History Nut, you have to give some proof of that for I've recently learned that that is a myth started in the early '90's by none other than Ward Churchill. People wanted to believe it so they did and managed to 'discover' many cases through conjecture. Google it. Why don't you Google it? "Captain Simeon Ecuyer had bought time by sending smallpox-infected blankets and handkerchiefs to the Indians surrounding the fort -- an early example of biological warfare -- which started an epidemic among them. Amherst himself had encouraged this tactic in a letter to Ecuyer." -- Carl Waldman's Atlas of the North American Indian [NY: Facts on File, 1985] Historian Francis Parkman, in his book The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada [Boston: Little, Brown, 1886] refers to a postscript in an earlier letter from Jeffery Amherst to Bouquet wondering whether smallpox could not be spread among the Indians: Could it not be contrived to send the Small Pox among those disaffected tribes of Indians? We must on this occasion use every stratagem in our power to reduce them. [Vol. II, p. 39 (6th edition)] "... we gave them two Blankets and an Handkerchief out of the Small Pox Hospital. I hope it will have the desired effect." -- Journal of William Trent And there appear to be plenty of other historic references supporting the contention that smallpox was considered to be a weapon against Native Americans. Further, Russell Means (an Oglala Lakota, and the first national director of the American Indian Movement (AIM)) was writing about this "myth started in the early '90's by none other than Ward Churchill" in his biography back in 1991, apparently before Ward Churchill ever suggested the same.