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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">Colleagues – confirming the correct Zoom link for this Sunday’s talk:
<a href="https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81255906307">https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81255906307</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">We also look forward to seeing you in person if you are in the Victoria area!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Sincerely,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Lara Wilson<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Lara Wilson <ljwilson@uvic.ca>
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<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, April 20, 2025 3:09 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Arcan-L <arcan-l@mailman.srv.ualberta.ca>; Archives BC Listserv <archives-bc@googlegroups.com>; Moderated BCMA subscriber listserv <listserv@lists.museum.bc.ca><br>
<b>Subject:</b> FBCA hybrid speaker event: Smallpox Chiefs: Bioterrorism and Power in the Pacific Northwest Dr. John Lutz Sunday, April 27th 2025 | 2:00pm – 3:00pm<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Please join the Friends of the BC Archives for our final speaker event before the summer.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">Smallpox Chiefs: Bioterrorism and Power in the Pacific Northwest</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">Dr. John Lutz</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">Sunday, April 27th 2025 | 2:00pm – 3:00pm</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">Conference Hall, Royal BC Museum
<i>or </i>via Zoom</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Register for Zoom Here: <a href="https://us06web.zoom.us/.../register/I1Aj1nscTeuS3AGRQEyAGg">
https://us06web.zoom.us/…/register/I1Aj1nscTeuS3AGRQEyAGg</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">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="color:black">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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