Wednesday, March 31 2021, 2pm Virtual This is a virtual event. Please join us as Dr. Roberts discusses her recent work. Registration is required: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAud--pqDkuE9TATjJL-TOQrwJyEfHEWhnJ "In I've Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land, historian Alaina E. Roberts tells a riveting story about Indian Territory in the Reconstruction era that illuminates a broader national moment. A descendant of the African Americans, Chickasaws, and white settlers about whom she writes, Roberts speaks in a bold voice and advances a provocative argument, urging readers to see how the various groups who migrated to Indian Territory by choice or by force all consciously participated in a process of settler colonialism and thus a national narrative. Scholars of the U.S. West, African American history and Native American history, and descendants of the many populations Roberts carefully recovers and calls to account, will want to contend with the complex portrayal she offers of family, land, hope, and loss."—Tiya Miles, author of The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits. U Pittsburgh
