Abstract
“[The tribes] have perfect confidence in the skill of their own physicians, until the disease has made one slaughter in their tribe, and then, having seen white men amongst them protected by [the vaccination], they are disposed to receive it, before which they cannot believe that so minute a puncture in the arm is going to protect them from so fatal a disease; and as they see white men so earnestly urging it, they decide that it must be some new mode or trick of pale faces, by which they are to gain some new advantage over them, and they stubbornly and successfully resist it.”Extinction of the Mandans by smallpox, George Catlin (circa 1832–39)1 Catlin G Letters and notes on the manners, customs, and conditions of North American Indians written during eight years' travel (1832–9) amongst the wildest tribes of Indians in North America. vol 2. Dover Publications, Toronto, Canada1973: 258 Google Scholar
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