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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">*apologies for cross posting<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Hi folks,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Sorry for the multiple emails – ignore/delete previous registration links, see below the correct registration link for our John Lutz talk on Sunday.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">-Lara<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Smallpox Chiefs: Bioterrorism and Power in the Pacific Northwest<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Dr. John Lutz<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Sunday, April 27th 2025 | 2:00pm – 3:00pm<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Conference Hall, Royal BC Museum or via Zoom<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Register for Zoom Here:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/I1Aj1nscTeuS3AGRQEyAGg</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">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 Makúk: A New
History of Aboriginal-White Relations, a co-editor of the collection Towards a New Ethnohistory: Community Engaged Scholarship Among the People of the River and a co-editor of To Share Not Surrender: Indigenous and Settler Visions of Treaty Making in the
Colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia. He currently works with the Songhees, Esquimalt and WSANEC First Nations on their litigation efforts to enforce their treaty rights.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Speaker Series of the Past!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Did you know the FBCA makes our Speaker Series available via YouTube?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Watch any of our past speakers anytime and anywhere! Visit the FBCA YouTube via the link below: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUWblYQdBhybmvPqm-RQ_ug<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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