Dr. Robbie Ethridge Presenting: The Indian Slave Trade, Colonial Shatter Zones, and the Transformation of Native North America
Thursday, November 4th, 4:15 - 5:30pm
Campus Center’s Cole Cinema
Free and Open to the Public
The commercial Indian slave trade that early Europeans brought to Native North America in the seventeenth century was a force of disruption to Native communities. This paper examines the Indian slave trade, along with other historical forces, that created “shatter zones,” or large regions of instability that generated militarized Indian slavers and resulted in the migrations, extinctions, and coalesences of Native peoples across the Americas. And pre-colonial Native North America was transformed.