Café Historique

  Wednesday February 4
John Lutz
What if… Disease had not Decimated
the Indigenous Peoples of the Pacific Northwest?

 

Diseases, and particularly smallpox, swept through the Pacific Northwest decades before Indigenous people first met Europeans, and returned many times through the nineteenth century. Estimates suggest Indigenous populations fell by as much as 90%.  This presentation looks at the impact of disease and how the history of Indigenous-settler relations might have evolved differently had smallpox not broken out using, as one point of comparison, New Zealand/Aotearoa, which was spared smallpox epidemics.

 

 

Wednesday April 1
Jason Colby
What if… the South had Won the US Civil War?

 

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