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For those unfamiliar with the Jeffery Amherst story, this Straight Dope column from 1997 provides a pretty good background and summary:

https://www.straightdope.com/21342238/did-whites-ever-give-n...

Here's another story, which includes several related links.

https://www.history.com/news/colonists-native-americans-smal...

Does anyone have a .pdf version of this article?
Thanks to Alexandra Elbakyan and the Library Genesis project, the PDF of a niche, 21 year old article is indeed freely available online, I’m reading it right now.

Copy and paste the article’s URL, or its DOI (10.2307/2567577) into any sci hub instance, or libgen instance’s Scientific Article field.

e.g. https://sci-hub.st/

e.g. http://libgen.rs/