-- by Steve Shultz, THE ELIJAH LIST steve@elijahlist.com

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You may be aware that several prophetic voices have seen restoration and reconciliation with the Native American as "a" key ---if not "the" key --- to the healing of the land in America.

And when the Land is healed, terrorism will likely diminish, or even be a thing of the past. But perhaps we have not as much hope for protection as we COULD have--unless we repent of our own bio-terrorist of 1763 (and surrounding years). The Country had not yet had it's JULY 4th Declaration of Independence. We were not yet the United States of America. And already, our forefathers and predecessors, egged on by Satan himself, sought to--or at least succeeded in-- defiling the blessing on the land by our intentional murdering of many of the Host Peoples, Native Americans---with nothing less than intentional bio-terrorism . Our goal---their annihilation--using the smallpox germ--sent "in the mail" on blankets to Indian villages.

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THE 1700'S BIOTERRORISM IN AMERICA

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One area of sin that most Americans have never heard about...sounds "coincidently" like today's newspaper. BIOTERRORISM. With the Lord, a day is as a thousand years and a thousand years as a day. This means that the bioterrorism you are about to read about--in the LORD'S timetable was about 8 HOURS AGO! So you see, it was recent and God has not forgotten. The PLANTING of SMALLPOX-laden (rather than envelope-filled) blankets in Native Villages, INTENTIONALLY TO KILL THEM OFF -- needs to be repented of--by both British and American descendents to those who did the evil deeds.

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JUST ONE REPENTANT MAN OR WOMAN COULD MAKE ALL THE DIFFERENCE. ARE YOU THAT PERSON?

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God is looking for a MAN or a WOMAN to stand in the gap. You can be that man. Who knows but that your specific prayers in your prayer closet will cause the Lord to look with compassion on this issue and forgive and cleanse America . We, the White man (and woman) through our ancestors, were parties to murder--- in planting a terminal disease, smallpox --into Indian Villages. (See article below).

When Daniel wanted to heal the Land of Israel, he looked at the sins of his forefathers and he cried out to God. . .

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"WE HAVE SINNED AND DONE WRONG," DANIEL PRAYED AND CONFESSED FOR HIS PEOPLE

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Dan 9:4-10 4 I prayed to the LORD my God and confessed: "O Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps his covenant of love with all who love him and obey his commands, 5 we have sinned and done wrong. We have been wicked and have rebelled; we have turned away from your commands and laws. 6 We have not listened to your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to our kings, our princes and our fathers, and to all the people of the land. 7 "Lord, you are righteous, but this day we are covered with shame-- the men of Judah and people of Jerusalem and all Israel, both near and far, in all the countries where you have scattered us because of our unfaithfulness to you. 8 O LORD, we and our kings, our princes and our fathers are covered with shame because we have sinned against you. 9 The Lord our God is merciful and forgiving, even though we have rebelled against him; 10 we have not obeyed the LORD our God or kept the laws he gave us through his servants the prophets. (NIV)

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Please read the following article and then pray a prayer with me at the end! --- Steve Shultz

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REPENTING FOR AMERICA and BRITAIN'S INTENTIONAL BIOLOGICAL/SMALLPOX TERRORISM OF 1763

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From: NATIVEWEB From: http://www.nativeweb.org/pages/legal/amherst/lord_jeff.html

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JEFFREY AMHERST AND SMALLPOX BLANKETS

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Lord Jeffrey Amherst's letters (and Trent's letter) discussing germ warfare against American Indians

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Trent's entry for May 24, 1763, includes the following statement:

... we gave them two Blankets and an Handkerchief out of the Small Pox Hospital. I hope it will have the desired effect. Trent's Journal confirms that smallpox had broken out in Fort Pitt prior to the correspondence between Bouquet and Amherst, thus making their plans feasible. It also indicates that intentional infection of the Indians with smallpox had been already approved by at least Captain Ecuyer at the fort, who some commentators have suggested was in direct correspondence with General Amherst on this tactic

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"... every Tree is become an Indian...." Colonel Henry Bouquet to General Amherst, dated 29 June 1763. [63k]

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LORD JEFFREY AMHERST, COMMANDING GENERAL OF BRITISH FORCES IN NORTH AMERICA 1754-1763

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Lord Jeffrey Amherst was commanding general of British forces in North America during the final battles of the so-called French & Indian war (1754-1763). He won victories against the French to acquire Canada for England and helped make England the world's chief colonizer at the conclusion of the Seven Years War among the colonial powers (1756-1763).

The town of Amherst, Massachusetts, was named for Lord Jeff even before he became a Lord. Amherst College was later named after the town. It is said the local inhabitants who formed the town preferred another name, Norwottuck, after the Indians whose land it had been; the colonial governor substituted his choice for theirs. Frank Prentice Rand, in his book, The Village of Amherst: A Landmark of Light [Amherst, MA: Amherst Historical Society, 1958], says that at the time of the naming, Amherst was "the most glamorous military hero in the New World. .. ...the name was so obvious in 1759 as to be almost inevitable." [p. 15]

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Amherst College china plates depicting mounted Englishman with sword chasing Indians on foot were in use until the 1970's

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Smallpox blankets

Despite his fame, Jeffrey Amherst's name became tarnished by stories of smallpox-infected blankets used as germ warfare against American Indians. These stories are reported, for example, in Carl Waldman's Atlas of the North American Indian [NY: Facts on File, 1985]. Waldman writes, in reference to a siege of Fort Pitt (Pittsburgh) by Chief Pontiac's forces during the summer of 1763:

... 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. [p. 108]

Some people have doubted these stories; other people, believing the stories, nevertheless assert that the infected blankets were not intentionally distributed to the Indians, or that Lord Jeff himself is not to blame for the germ warfare tactic.

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LORD JEFF'S LETTERS DURING PONTIAC'S REBELLION

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The documents provided here are made available to set the record straight. These are images of microfilmed original letters written between General Amherst and his officers and others in his command during the summer of 1763, when the British were fighting what became known as Pontiac's Rebellion.

Pontiac, an Ottawa chief who had sided with the French, led an uprising against the British after the French surrender in Canada. Indians were angered by Amherst's refusal to continue the French practice of providing supplies in exchange for Indian friendship and assistance, and by a generally imperious British attitude toward Indians and Indian land. As Waldman puts it:

... Lord Jeffrey Amherst, the British commander-in-chief for America, believed ... that the best way to control Indians was through a system of strict regulations and punishment when necessary, not "bribery," as he called the granting of provisions. [p. 106]

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THE BRITISH MANUSCRIPT PROJECT

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The documents provided here are among Amherst's letters and other papers microfilmed as part of the British Manuscript Project, 1941-1945, undertaken by the United States Library of Congress during World War II. The project was designed to preserve British historical documents from possible war damage. There are almost three hundred reels of microfilm on Amherst alone.

The microfilm is difficult to read, and paper copies even harder. Nonetheless, the images obtained by scanning the copies are sufficiently clear for online viewing. The images are of key excerpts from the letters. An index is provided to show by document number the location of these images in the microfilm set. Ascii text of the excerpts is also provided.

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THE PIVOTAL LETTERS-ABOUT THE SMALLPOX LADEN BLANKETS

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These are the pivotal letters:

Colonel Henry Bouquet to General Amherst, dated 13 July 1763, [262k] suggests in a postscript the distribution of blankets to "inoculate the Indians";

Amherst to Bouquet, dated 16 July 1763, [128k] approves this plan in a postscript and suggests as well as "to try Every other method that can serve to Extirpate this Execrable Race." (This postscript spans two pages.) These letters also discuss the use of dogs to hunt the Indians, the so-called "Spaniard's Method," which Amherst approves in principle, but says he cannot implement because there are not enough dogs. In a letter dated 26 July 1763, Bouquet acknowledges Amherst's approval [125k] and writes, "all your Directions will be observed."

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CONSPIRING TO SPREAD SMALLPOX AMONG THE INDIANS

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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 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)]

I have not found this letter, but there is a letter from Bouquet to Amherst, dated 23 June 1763, [189k] three weeks before the discussion of blankets to the Indians, stating that Captain Ecuyer at Fort Pitt (to which Bouquet would be heading with reinforcements) has reported smallpox in the Fort. This indicates at least that the writers knew the plan could be carried out.

It is curious that the specific plans to spread smallpox were relegated to postscripts. I leave it to the reader to ponder the significance of this.

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SMALLPOX NOT ONLY AN ANOMALY

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Several other letters from the summer of 1763 show the smallpox idea was not an anomaly. The letters are filled with comments that indicate a genocidal intent, with phrases such as:

"...that Vermin ... have forfeited all claim to the rights of humanity" (Bouquet to Amherst, 25 June) [149k]

"I would rather choose the liberty to kill any Savage...." (Bouquet to Amherst, 25 June) [121k]

"...Measures to be taken as would Bring about the Total Extirpation of those Indian Nations" (Amherst to Sir William Johnson, Superintendent of the Northern Indian Department, 9 July) [229k]

"...their Total Extirpation is scarce sufficient Attonement...." (Amherst to George Croghan, Deputy Agent for Indian Affairs, 7 August) [145k]

"...put a most Effectual Stop to their very Being" (Amherst to Johnson, 27 August [292k]; emphasis in original). Amherst's correspondence during this time includes many letters on routine matters, such as officers who are sick or want to be relieved of duty; accounts of provisions on hand, costs for supplies, number of people garrisoned; negotiations with provincial governors (the army is upset with the Pennsylvania assembly, for example, for refusing to draft men for service); and so on. None of these other letters show a deranged mind or an obsession with cruelty. Amherst's venom was strictly reserved for Indians.

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THE FRENCH AND THE INDIANS

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The sharpest contrast with letters about Indians is provided by letters regarding the other enemy, the French. Amherst has been at war with the French as much as with the Indians; but he showed no obsessive desire to extirpate them from the earth. They were apparently his "worthy" enemy. It was the Indians who drove him mad. It was they against whom he was looking for "an occasion, to extirpate them root and branch." [J. C. Long, Lord Jeffrey Amherst: A Soldier of the King (NY: Macmillan, 1933), p. 187]

Long describes Amherst's "kindliness to the French" and refers to Amherst's "intensity of feeling on these issues":

Amherst's kindliness to the French civilians was more than a military gesture. He had a warm sympathy for the countryside, an interest in people and the way they lived. "The Inhabitants live comfortably," he observed in his journal, "most have stone houses.... ....

This humane attitude was reflected in his rules for the governing of Canada. As its de facto military Governor-General he established a temporary code ... a program of tolerance and regard for colonial sensibilities.... ***

Perhaps most statesmanlike of all was Amherst's recognition of the French law, ... a recognition which permitted change of national loyalty without social upheaval. [p. 137]

In contrast to these kindly feelings, Long says that Pontiac's attacks on British forts at Detroit and Presqu'Isle "aroused Amherst to a frenzy, a frenzy almost hysterical in its impotence." Long then quotes from Amherst's letter to Sir William Johnson:

... it would be happy for the Provinces there was not an Indian settlement within a thousand Miles of them, and when they are properly punished, I care not how soon they move their Habitations, for the Inhabitants of the Woods are the fittest Companions for them, they being more nearly allied to the Brute than to the Human Creation. [p.186]

Colonel Bouquet's poetic line, "... every Tree is become an Indian," [63k] quoted above, was his description of a contagion of fear among soldiers and settlers, for whom the Indians were a part of the wildness they perceived around themselves. These warriors would not stand in ordered ranks; they fell back into the forests only to emerge again in renewed attack; their leaders defied British logic and proved effective against a string of British forts; these were the enemy that nearly succeeded in driving the British out, and became the target for British genocide.

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CONCLUSION:

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All in all, the letters provided here remove all doubt about the validity of the stories about Lord Jeff and germ warfare. The General's own letters sustain the stories.

As to whether the plans actually were carried out, Parkman has this to say:

... in the following spring, Gershom Hicks, who had been among the Indians, reported at Fort Pitt that the small-pox had been raging for some time among them....

An additional source of information on the matter is the Journal of William Trent, commander of the local militia of the townspeople of Pittsburgh during Pontiac's siege of the fort. This Journal has been described as "... the most detailed contemporary account of the anxious days and nights in the beleaguered stronghold." [Pen Pictures of Early Western Pennsylvania, John W. Harpster, ed. (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1938).]

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Trent's entry for May 24, 1763, includes the following statement:

... we gave them two Blankets and an Handkerchief out of the Small Pox Hospital. I hope it will have the desired effect. Trent's Journal confirms that smallpox had broken out in Fort Pitt prior to the correspondence between Bouquet and Amherst, thus making their plans feasible. It also indicates that intentional infection of the Indians with smallpox had been already approved by at least Captain Ecuyer at the fort, who some commentators have suggested was in direct correspondence with General Amherst on this tactic (though I have not yet found such letters). -

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CAN SMALLPOX BE SPREAD BY INFECTED BLANKETS?

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Some readers question whether smallpox can be spread by such methods as infected blankets. There is a smallpox virus Variola minor that is transmitted by inhalation, communicable for 3-7 days. There is a smallpox virus Variola major that is transmitted by inhalation and by contamination; it is communicable by the former method for 9-14 days and by the latter method for several years in a dried state.

See Ann F. Ramenofsky, Vectors of Death: The Archaeology of European Contact (Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1987):

Among Class I agents, Variola major holds a unique position. Although the virus is most frequently transmitted through droplet infection, it can survive for a number of years outside human hosts in a dried state (Downie 1967; Upham 1986). As a consequence, Variola major can be transmitted through contaminated articles such as clothing or blankets (Dixon 1962). In the nineteenth century, the U.S. Army sent contaminated blankets to Native Americans, especially Plains groups, to control the Indian problem (Stearn and Stearn 1945). [p. 148] See also Robert L. O'Connell, Of Arms and Men: A History of War, Weapons, and Aggression (NY and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989):

Marking a milestone of sorts, certain colonists during the French and Indian Wars resorted to trading smallpox-contaminated blankets to local tribes with immediate and devastating results. While infected carcasses had long been catapulted into besieged cities, this seems to be the first time a known weakness in the immunity structure of an adversary population was deliberately exploited with a weapons response. [p. 171]

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Author of this WWW site is Peter d'Errico. Most recent additions of material: 17 March 2001 Comments to: derrico@legal.umass.edu

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IN YOUR OWN PRAYER CLOSET-- WOULD YOU LIKE TO REPENT ON BEHALF OF THE BRITISH AND THE AMERICAN AND THE LAND OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA FOR OUR TREATMENT OF THE HOST PEOPLES, THE NATIVE AMERICAN PEOPLE?

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The pray something like this, according to the prayer of Daniel 9 :

According to: Dan 9

I prayed to the LORD my God and confessed the sins of America and the people who CAME to America: "O Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps his covenant of love with all who love him and obey his commands, we have sinned and done wrong. We have been wicked and have rebelled; we have turned away from your commands and laws. We have not listened to your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name --- nor to those who we found in the land that you brought us into, the host peoples, our Native American brothers and sisters. We did not listen to them, nor did we honor or respect or love them. Instead we became murderers by hating them. We neither listened, neither did we care to restore those we called "Savages" to their creator--but rather determined to eliminated them and thus "cleanse the land ethnically".

So, instead of love those you loved, we hated them with a vengeful hate, and so we lied, and we cheated and we burned their villages down. We used bio-terrorism and we inflicted smallpox on them with one goal and one goal only ---to wipe them from the face of the earth. And then we--through our forefathers, rejoiced that we had done a service to God --by clearing the land for those we called "Christians" to inhabit it.

"Lord, you are righteous, but this day we are covered with shame-- the men of Britain, the entire U.K, and the United States of America, both near and far, and in all the countries where you have scattered many of us--- O LORD, we and our presidents and leaders, our politicians and our fathers are covered with shame because we have sinned against you and our brothers by murdering out Native family members, our own flesh and blood.

The Lord our God is merciful and forgiving, even though we have rebelled against him; we have not obeyed the LORD our God or kept the laws he gave us through his servants the prophets.

"Now, O Lord our God, who brought your people from the four corners of the earth to this hallowed land called AMERICA that we have now desecrated---WE HAVE SINNED-- WE HAVE DONE WRONG! Oh, Lord, in keeping with all your righteous acts, restore your favor to this land and restore your protection on this which is called ONE NATION UNDER GOD.

May we be, or become the very thing that we say we are-- Many Nations. Yet One Voice. One nation under God. And NOT divisible. Our sins and the iniquities of our fathers have made America and your people an object of scorn to all those around us--and to many throughout the world. "Now, our God, hear the prayers and petitions of your servants. For your sake, O Lord, look with favor on your desolate land--that yet enjoys a measure of your blessing, though we do not deserve it. For the sake of those who have gone before and prayed to truly bless this land-- Give ear, O God, and hear; open your eyes and see the desolation of a great nation that bears your Name--though we have not represented your name. We do not make requests of you because we are righteous, but specifically--and ONLY because of your great mercy. For we indeed are anything but righteous. Greed has been our God. Gold our Goal. The destruction of the downtrodden our desire and our legacy.

O Lord, listen! O Lord, forgive America for our sins and for the sins of our forefathers against the Host People of this Land, the First Nations people.! O Lord, hear and act! Show us how to individually and corporately restore the Native Peoples to the dignity they deserve--and even to the land that they deserve, that you will show us! Show us, and show our nation and show our leaders how to make this great sin against the Host People right-- and thus cleanse and restore the land--while vindicating our hurting brothers and sisters, the First Nations People.

For your sake, O my God, do not delay, because your nation, America the Beautiful-- to be so--to be beautiful, Your people on this land must bear your name AND represent your name. So.... restore us we pray, because of YOUR mercy and YOUR grace and the BLOOD of your only begotten son Jesus---in Jesus' Holy Name we pray this together, in our individual hearts and prayer closets. Amen! and AMEN!!

Bless you all!
Steve Shultz