“Small Nations, Big Histories” Convened by Elizabeth N. Ellis and Eliga H. Gould June 20–21, 2025 Huntington Library, San Marino, California In early America, did the size of a nation or polity matter? Smaller political units were not powerless, and recent work has highlighted how Indigenous, African, and colonial actors from small polities transformed… Read More
Registration for the spring colloqs will open by November 1, 2024. January 21, 2025 at 5:00 pm ET Joanne Jahnke-Wegner, University of Wisconsin—Eau Claire “Dematriation: Indigenous Women, Displacement, and Racial Capitalism”… Read More
OI Colloquium with Steve Hackel This paper will present preliminary results from an analysis of fertility, mortality and marriage patterns among more than 89,000 Indigenous Californians and some 19,000 settlers or pobladores who lived in California’s 21 missions, 4 presidios, and 3 pueblos between 1769 and 1850. Studying these two populations side by side raises important questions about differential… Read More
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Join us for an OI Author Conversation with Samantha Seeley and Michael Witgen. Westward expansion is a central theme in the history of the United States. But the movement of people across the continent, forced and voluntary, was more complicated and more fraught than popular narratives suggest. Indigenous peoples in the Old Northwest struggled to retain their homelands… Read More
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Join the Society of Early Americanists for a free and public Zoom webinar sponsored by Georgia Humanities and the Omohundro Institute. Brooke Bauer (Catawba; University of South Carolina, Lancaster), Malinda Maynor Lowery (Lumbee; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), and Julie L. Reed (Cherokee; Pennsylvania State University) will discuss their scholarship while reflecting on the ways that early Indigenous… Read More
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By John William Nelson John William Nelson (Texas Tech University) is the author of “Sigenauk’s War of Independence: Anishinaabe Resurgence and the Making of Indigenous Authority in the Borderlands of Revolution” in the October 2021 issue of the William and Mary Quarterly. I did not set out to write a history of an obscure… Read More
Christine DeLucia, author of “Fugitive Collections in New England Indian Country: Indigenous Material Culture and Early American History Making at Ezra Stiles’s Yale Museum” in the January 2018 edition of the William and Mary Quarterly reflects on the broader implications of making a “simple” change to her recent article. by Christine DeLucia It wasn’t quite a “stop the presses!”… Read More