In Indian Country, it is an accepted fact that white settlers distributed items, such as blankets contaminated with smallpox and other infectious diseases, aiming to reduce the population of ...

In her seven-minute opening monologue, Bee pointed her finger at Trump's "political smallpox blanket," as the real source of Trump's obstructionist anti-immigration stance that led to a brief ...

During the French and Indian War (1754-1763), the British intentionally gave smallpox-contaminated blankets to the Indians, resulting in an epidemic with a 50 percent mortality rate. The story of ...

4:16 P.M. Churchill is testifying about allegations that he falsified research that the U.S. Army had infected the Mandan Indians with smallpox infected blankets. The allegation was made because ...

The message reads, "After what I've been through in the past 36 hours, I only wish the pioneers had brought more blankets with smallpox. There, I said it. Crucify me.": (The message was a ...

The colonel replied: 'I will try to inoculate the [Native American tribe] with some blankets that may fall in their hands, and take care not to get the disease myself.' Smallpox decimated the ...

But these blankets took on a darker history, with rumours they were used to spread smallpox. The iconic Hudson's Bay point blanket has a complicated history with Indigenous people in Canada.