Refugees, Migrants, and Visitors: A long history of Indigenous Mobility

Elizabeth Ellis | Princeton

This is a hybrid event.

A History and Powerful Stories Network Event, sponsored by the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, University of Notre Dame (USA) and the Vere Gordon Childe Centre.

What does a deep historical view reveal about Indigenous migration and movement in North America? And what can North America's Mississippian past tell us about Native people confronted colonial empires in the eighteenth century? This talk will focus on the patterns and practices of Indigenous migration, naturalization, and refugee acceptance that helped Native peoples along the Mississippi river survive imperial invasion. By examining both forced migration and voluntary relocation, we can see how early modern Indigenous nations confronted the new American empire in the age of Revolutions.

Elizabeth Ellis is an associate professor of history at Princeton University where she teaches early American and Native American history as well as Indigenous studies. Her first book is “The Great Power of Small Nations: Indigenous Diplomacy in the Gulf South.” She is currently researching early Native American iconography and working on a collaborative project on eighteenth-century painted deer hides (minohsaya). Liz also writes about contemporary Indigenous issues and political movements. She is a citizen of the Peoria Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma, and she serves as the tribal history liaison for her nation.

All welcome. We hope you will join us for a reception after the lecture.

This event is part of a three day symposium on Indigeneity, Mobility and the Age of Revolutions sponsored by the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, University of Notre Dame (USA). For more information about the symposium, please click here or contact Michael McDonnell at michael.mcdonnell@sydney.edu.au.