Raboteau bears witness to the inner life of Black womanhood, motherhood, the brutalities and possibilities of cities, while celebrating the beauty and fragility of nature. She ventures abroad to learn from Indigenous peoples, and in her own family and community, she discovers the most intimate examples of resilience. With camera in hand, Raboteau goes in search of birds, fluttering in the air or painted on buildings, and city parks where her children may safely play while avoiding pollution, pandemics, and the police. Lessons for Survival is a probing series of pilgrimages from the perspective of a mother struggling to raise her children to thrive without coming undone in an era of turbulent intersecting crises. This event is free with first come, first served seating. In addition to his book, Native American History of Washington DC, brief reports of his findings have previously been published in blogs, on websites and in news stories. His work has connected him with local Piscataway leaders. His studies led him to uncover the many sites in Washington where evidence of previous Native occupation has been found. Lione has lived and worked in the city for more than forty years, evaluating studies on the possible reproductive effects of thousands of agents. Lione began studying the history of the Native people of Washington, DC, after spending time in Australia, where the local Indigenous people are celebrated. She is a coauthor of Give Me Liberty! and coeditor of Interpreting a Continent: Voices from Colonial America.ĭuVal will be in conversation with Armand Lione. Her previous work includes Independence Lost, which was a finalist for the George Washington Prize, and The Native Ground: Indians and Colonists in the Heart of the Continent. Kathleen DuVal is a professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she teaches early American and American Indian history. In this important addition to the growing tradition of North American history centered on Indigenous nations, Kathleen DuVal shows how the definitions of power and means of exerting it shifted over time, but the sovereignty and influence of Native peoples remained a constant-and will continue far into the future. The Cherokees created institutions to assert their sovereignty on the global stage, and the Kiowas used their power in the west to regulate the passage of white settlers across their territory. Shawnee brothers Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa forged new alliances and encouraged a controversial new definition of Native identity to attempt to wall off U.S. Power dynamics shifted after the American Revolution, but Indigenous people continued to command much of the continent’s land and resources. In Native Nations, we see how Mohawks closely controlled trade with the Dutch-and influenced global markets-and how Quapaws manipulated French colonists. So, when Europeans showed up in the sixteenth century, they encountered societies they did not understand-those having developed differently from their own-and whose power they often underestimated.įor centuries afterward, Indigenous people maintained an upper hand and used Europeans in pursuit of their own interests. From this urban past, egalitarian government structures, diplomacy, and complex economies spread across North America. Then, following a period of climate change and instability, numerous smaller nations emerged, moving away from rather than toward urbanization. And, as award-winning historian Kathleen DuVal vividly recounts, when Europeans did arrive, no civilization came to a halt because of a few wandering explorers, even when the strangers came well armed.Ī millennium ago, North American cities rivaled urban centers around the world in size. Nomber_key:000441Long before the colonization of North America, Indigenous Americans built diverse civilizations and adapted to a changing world in ways that reverberated globally.
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