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Ben Franklin's World: Women and the Making of Catawba Identity


  • The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Williamsburg, Virginia USA (map)

How did Indigenous people adapt and survive the onslaught of Indigenous warfare, European diseases, and population loss between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries? How did past generations of Indigenous women ensure that their culture would live on from one generation to the next so that their people would endure? Brooke Bauer, an assistant professor of history at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and author of the book Becoming Catawba: Catawba Women and Nation Building, 1540-1840, joins us to investigate these questions and what we might learn from the Catawba HERE.