Southeastern Experiences Beyond Removal: Remembering, Forgetting & Mythologizing Louisiana’s Petite Nations

Recommended by CEE Original Caretakers Program Director, Mindahi Bastida

University Seminar on Indigenous Studies (#771)
Columbia University in the City of New York

October 7, 2019.

Speaker’s Biography: Elizabeth Ellis

Elizabeth Ellis is an assistant professor of History at New York University. She is also the director of NYU’s Native Studies Forum. Prior to joining the department at NYU, Liz was the Barra postdoctoral fellow and visiting assistant professor at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Liz received her PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2015. She studies and teaches early American and Native American history, and her current manuscript in preparation “Power on the Margins: the Petites Nations and the Transformations of the Lower Mississippi Valley 1650-1800” investigates histories of Louisiana’s small Native American polities during the eighteenth century. Her recent publications include an article in the Louisiana Historical Quarterly (2017), a chapter in The World of Colonial America ed. Ignacio Gallup-Diaz (Routledge, 2017), and a chapter in Standing With Standing Rock: Voices from the #NoDAPL Movement, ed. Jaskiran Dhillon and Nick Estes, (2019). Liz is also a citizen of the Peoria Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma.

Please read this Chapter from “Power on the Margins”, Ellis’ work in progress.

Questions may be directed to Romina Quezada, Rapporteur: [email protected]