Hidden History of Jews & American Indians
Levy Andrew Levy participated in the extermination plot against the Indians by providing them with blankets laced with smallpox. He is listed as a resident of Lancaster, Pennsylvania with “two female slaves and one house.” Levy once had a slave “who preferred freedom with the Indians to servitude under Levy. The slave ran off with a local tribe.”
British General Jeffrey Amherst’s pathological hatred for the Indian knew no limits – co-existence was not an option. In a postscript of a 1763 letter to Col. Henry Bouquet, Amherst wrote: “Could it not be contrived to send the smallpox among these disaffected tribes of Indians? We must on this occasion use every stratagem in our power to reduce them.” Rabbi Sharfman explains the events that followed and the involvement of the Jewish Indian traders:
“Captain Ecuyer then called upon Levy Andrew [Levy] at his trading post. He told how he tricked the chief into accepting the deadly gifts and placed an order to replace the blankets and handkerchiefs. This grim invoice accompanied the new goods, receipt of which was duly acknowledged by Ecuyer: Debtor:
The Crown to Levy, Trent & Co., for sundries had by order of Captain Simeon Ecuyer, Commandant…to sundries, got to replace in kind those which were taken from the people in the hospital to convey the smallpox to the Indians, viz., 2 blankets @ 2.00. 1 silk handkerchief @ .10. 1 linen do. 3.6 Total: 2.13.6 Fort Pitt, August 15, 1763 I do hereby certify that the above articles…were had for the uses above-mentioned. S. Ecuyer, Captain, Commandant”
Seventy Shawnee, Mingo, and Delaware, fell before the unseen enemy, smallpox. Many more undoubtably died, for the Indians had no resistance to the white man’s diseases.
The disregard for the humanity of the Red man and woman is demonstrated in the scholarship of the foremost Jewish historian, Jacob Rader Marcus, who describes the mockery of an Indian by Hyam Myer’s “Wild West” show, and further calls it “the spirit of enterprise”:
“Like many of his fellow merchants in the Canadian fur trade, Myers had suffered reverses during the French and Indian War and presumably in the Indian uprising that followed it. To recoup his fortunes, he had his friend Sampson Simson intercede with Sir William Johnson for formal permission to exhibit some Mohawks in Europe. Myers sailed with the Indians before the proper certificate was forthcoming from the Indian Commissioner, and had already begun to parade them in Holland and in the taverns of London when the Lords of Trade urged Lieutenant-Governor Cadwallader Colden in New York to have Johnson put an end to the undertaking. From all indications Myers made no money on his grand European tour, for he ended up owing the Indians money – or refusing to pay them. Then, as now, there was ‘no business like show business!'”
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