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Session 1 Global and National Contexts of Indian Bondage
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Philip J. Deloria, Tiya Miles, Andrés Reséndez, Scott Manning Stevens The Other Slavery: Histories of Indian Bondage from New Spain to the Southwestern United States symposium, examining New Spain, its Asian colonies, and the southwestern United States, is the first in a series of programs at the Smithsonian that explores the histories and legacies of the enslavement of Native peoples in the Americas. This first panel broadens the examination of global enslavement practices that subjugated Indigenous peoples and explores interracial and intercultural relationships impacted by the enslavement of Native peoples in what is now the United States of America. While the panel will study various colonial powers, the emphasis is on the Spanish Empire, which is the focus of this symposium. ------------- Philip J. Deloria, PhD, is the Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History at Harvard University, where his research and teaching focus on the social, cultural, and political histories of the relations among American Indian peoples and the United States. A member of the Standing Rock Sioux Nation, he is the author of several books, including Playing Indian (Yale University Press, 1998), Indians in Unexpected Places (University Press of Kansas, 2004), American Studies: A User’s Guide (University of California Press, 2017), with Alexander Olson, and Becoming Mary Sully: Toward an American Indian Abstract (University of Washington Press, 2019), as well as two co-edited books and numerous articles and chapters. Deloria received a PhD in American Studies from Yale University in 1994, taught at the University of Colorado, and then, from 2001 to 2017, at the University of Michigan, before joining the faculty at Harvard in January 2018. Deloria is a trustee of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian. He is former president of the American Studies Association, an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the recipient of numerous prizes and recognitions, and will serve as president of the Organization of American Historians in 2022. ------------------ Tiya Miles, PhD, is the author of six books, including the prize-winning histories The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits (2017), The House on Diamond Hill: A Cherokee Plantation Story (2010), and Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom (2005, 2015). She has also published historical fiction, a lecture series on haunted plantations, a co-edited collection on Afro-Native studies, and various essays in the New York Times, the Boston Globe, the Atlantic, CNN.com, and other media outlets. She has consulted with colleagues at historic sites and museums on representations of slavery, African American material culture, and the Black-Native intersectional past, including, most recently, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Her work has been supported by a MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Award, the Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Her latest book, All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake, was released by Random House in summer 2021. She is currently a professor of history and Radcliffe Alumnae Professor at Harvard University. ------------------- Andrés Reséndez, PhD, is a professor of history and author who grew up in Mexico City and currently teaches at the University of California, Davis. His specialties are early European exploration and colonization of the Americas, the U.S.-Mexico border region, and the early history of the Pacific Ocean. His book, The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016), was a finalist for the 2016 National Book Award and winner of the 2017 Bancroft Prize from Columbia University. His latest book, Conquering the Pacific: An Unknown Mariner and the Final Great Voyage of the Age of Discovery, about the first expedition to go from America to Asia and back, thus transforming the Pacific Ocean into a vital space of contact and exchange, was published in September 2021.
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1 hr 44 min 41 sec
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