Sioux tribe rejects South Dakota governor request to remove Covid-19 checkpoints

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44. Not really.

There's more myth and "wanna believe" thinking over this.

No cases have been shown to be proven. In one instance, it was mentioned in a diary. No evidence that the tribes concerned had a breakout as a result or anything was sent.

In another the proof quotes are selective. It's like quoting the previous paragraph as "In one instance, it was mentioned in a diary ... the tribes concerned had a breakout as a result...".

Compare the two presentations:
1. A diary mentions actually collecting blankets from a post in the US Midwest and sending them upriver to the tribesfolk there. There'd been hostilities between the tribe and the post. So this was done, blankets sent. And the tribesfolk suffered from an outbreak of smallpox.

2. The tribesfolk were already suffering from an outbreak of smallpox, the people at the post collected blankets, then sent them up river to the tribesfolk as a gesture of good will and help. It wasn't done mostly out of altruism, but in order to obtain good will and perhaps secure some measure of peace.

The same basic set of facts, but one includes a bit more information that sort of explodes the "I wanna believe the worst" narrative. There's a lot horrible in US history. No need to be inventive.