Southern lore is full of tales of Indigenous haunting. Local myths speak of the demise of Native nations and their fabled ancient pasts. Alongside these legends, contemporary Native nations endure in their southern homelands. Dr. Elizabeth Ellis will investigate the dissonance between stories of historic Native demise and modern Indigenous survival in their southern homelands. This lecture will investigate the dissonance between stories of historic Native demise and modern Indigenous survival. Her talk will take place on March 28 at 12:45 in VC 7150.
Elizabeth Ellis is an associate professor of history at Princeton University. She specializes in early American and Native American history, and her research focuses on the seventeenth and eighteenth-century south. Her first book, The Great Power of Small Nations: Indigenous Diplomacy in the Gulf South, examines the formation of Native American nations in the Lower Mississippi Valley.
