Biological Warfare on Turtle Island

Jake Krismer

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This factsheet discusses the role of biological warfare against Indigenous peoples during the Seven Years War in 1763. It also summarizes the history of British ethics of war, the Royal Proclamation, and the Treaty of Niagara of 1764.

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  • Borrows, J. (1997). “Wampum at Niagara: The Royal Proclamation, Canadian Legal History, and Self-Government”. Aboriginal and Treaty Rights in Canada: Essays on Law, Equity, and Respect for Difference. Vancouver: UBC Press: pp. 155-172. https://ebookcentral-proquest-com.ezproxy.library.uvic.ca/lib/uvic/detail.action?docID=3412139

  • Faragher, John Mack. “'A Great and Noble Scheme': Thoughts on the Expulsion of the Acadians." Acadiensis 36, no. 1 (Autumn 2006): 82-92.

  • Fenn, Elizabeth A. “Biological Warfare in Eighteenth-Century North America: Beyond Jeffery Amherst.” The Journal of American History 86, no. 4 (2000): 1552–80.

  • Sitara, Georgia. "Week 6: The Seven Years War." Class Lecutre in History 329A: Race, Racism, and Ethnicity in Canada to 1990. University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C. October 2021

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