<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Windows-1252">
<style type="text/css" style="display:none;"> P {margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;} </style>
</head>
<body dir="ltr">
<div class="elementToProof" style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
*apologies for cross posting</div>
<div class="elementToProof" style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<br>
</div>
<div class="elementToProof" style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
Dear colleagues,</div>
<div class="elementToProof" style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
Please join the Friends of the BC Archives for our final speaker event before the summer.</div>
<div class="elementToProof" style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<br>
</div>
<div class="elementToProof" style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<b>Smallpox Chiefs: Bioterrorism and Power in the Pacific Northwest</b></div>
<div class="elementToProof" style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<b>Dr. John Lutz</b></div>
<div class="elementToProof" style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<b>Sunday, April 27th 2025 | 2:00pm – 3:00pm</b></div>
<div class="elementToProof" style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<b>Conference Hall, Royal BC Museum <i>or </i>via Zoom</b></div>
<div class="elementToProof" style="margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
Register for Zoom Here: <a href="https://us06web.zoom.us/.../register/I1Aj1nscTeuS3AGRQEyAGg" id="OWA973529a5-3655-f87d-0e5b-1cb2224be9d4" class="OWAAutoLink" data-auth="NotApplicable">
https://us06web.zoom.us/…/register/I1Aj1nscTeuS3AGRQEyAGg</a></div>
<div class="elementToProof" style="margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
This presentation examines one probable origin of the commonly told story in the past and today that smallpox was deliberately spread by Whites in the process of colonizing the Pacific Northwest. While there is one documented attempt in the Pacific Northwest
to trade smallpox- infected blankets into an Indigenous population, there are at least 10 documented examples of European leaders threatening to spread smallpox as a punishment for past or potential actions by Indigenous people. Sometimes a smallpox epidemic
followed these threats. This presentation will look at the circumstances and the effects of these threats.</div>
<div class="elementToProof" style="margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
John Lutz is a professor of History at the University of Victoria. His research focuses on Indigenous-settler relations and the history of racism in the Pacific Northwest. He is the author of
<i>Makúk: A New History of Aboriginal-White Relations,</i> a co-editor of the collection<i> Towards a New Ethnohistory: Community Engaged Scholarship Among the People of the River
</i>and a co-editor of <i>To Share Not Surrender: Indigenous and Settler Visions of Treaty Making in the Colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia.
</i>He currently works with the Songhees, Esquimalt and WSANEC First Nations on their litigation efforts to enforce their treaty rights.</div>
<div class="elementToProof" style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<br>
</div>
<div style="color: inherit;" class="elementToProof" id="Signature">
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri Light", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p>
</div>
</body>
</html>