During the Indian removal were native Americans fed rotten food and taken through diseased areas?
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Condemned Pork
On June 10th 1832 Lieutenant Rains wrote that the Indians refused to take 100 barrels of pork delivered from Fort Gibson “alleging it was spoiled and, had been condemned at Cantonment Gibson“. He confirmed the meat was at least 4 or 5 years old and that “it is spoiled in no other way“.
This wasn't food donated during a time of humanitarian need but provisions provided during a time where “the country which has promised for a while to support them“.
A year later things got worse and Rains was able to issue the condemned pork again now that the Indians were suffering from starvation.
April 5th 1833 Lieutenant Rains wrote:
The old immigrants of 1831 whose time of drawing provisions has expired (most of them having not raised crops last year) are now begging for provisions to keep them from starving I can recommend nothing to relieve them for I believe they were supported another year the same again would happen though the situation of widows and orphans is to be lamented.
P.S I have been informed that some Choctaws this, day have been collecting carrion, thrown on the common, for their subsistence — a cow which had died of disease, and was putrefying! There are some barrels of the condemned pork which I have... Now, though these people have refused it in their rations once, they would doubtless be glad to get it; for this is not putrid nor spoiled, except by age and salt, and gladly would they receive' provision of any kind to relieve their present necessities.
Spoiled Flour
At the end of 1832, the Creek Agency was reduced to a subagency and during this downscaling food was left behind. Yet they only offered the food that the Government would not feed its own.
February 10th 1833 Enoch Parsons wrote:
several hundred barrels of flour were left here by the army, and I am informed thirty or forty barrels of it are partially spoiled, so as to be of no value to the Government; and if Col. S. C. Benton had the authority to give this spoiled flour to the most needy, it would, I have no doubt, save the lives of many, and ameliorate the sufferings of others.
Taken Through Diseased Areas
Evidence of this claims most likely came from the book written by Foreman called Indian Removal: The Emigration of the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians which is a collection of over 200 letters
"This is the third season that the cholera has scattered desolation & dismay over the Western water and during its malignant influence no bodied of people have able to move in any considerable number for any length of time in contact, upon the rivers with impunity," wrote Lieutenant Harris. But the government did not relax its efforts to drive the Indians through that disease infected area.
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Your linked reference to Wikipedia on the Amherst letter states:
A month later in July, General Bouquet discussed Pontiac's War in detail with General Amherst via letters, and in the post-scripts of three letters in more freeform style, Amherst briefly broached the subject of using smallpox as a weapon.
Did you not notice this?
In an article on JSTOR, they report:
The Fort Pitt case is infamous. In June 1763, the fort was besieged during Pontiac's Rebellion. Soldiers and civilians in the fort had smallpox - as did some of the Native Americans outside. Two Delaware dignataries, in the fort to parlay, were given "two blankets and a handkerchief out of the Smallpox hospital" when they left, wrote the trader and land speculator, William Trent in his diary. He concluded, "I hope it will have the desired effect."
... Within weeks, Amherst is on record aporoving of weaponising smallpox as one of the methods "that can serve to Extirpate thos Excreable Race."
So, yes, there is evidence ... and probably why Stannard didn't mention it, is like the above writer verified - it's infamous.
And just as likely, the principals knew that these were underhand means and took pains to hide what evidence there was. After all, in the Jewish holocaust in Europe, it seemed like nobody in Germany knew what was going on. And oh, it's on record that the American government used the same phrasing for the genocide of the Native Americans - The Final Solution. It's easy to imagine, given how the Nazi's admired the racist policies of the then USA, that the Nazi's borrowed that particular phrase from the USA.
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