New Book Finds Cherokees Quarantined against Smallpox (VIDEO)

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KU associate professor of history Paul Kelton as part of his new book, "Cherokee Medicine, Colonial Germs: An Indigenous Nation's Fight against Smallpox, 1518-1824," disputes the idea that infectious diseases themselves gave Europeans an advantage over Native Americans because indigenous peoples did not have the right medicine or knowledge base to fight these new diseases, such as smallpox.

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