The Department of Anthropology Welcomes Our Fall 2021 Visiting Anthropologist

Submitted by Shelby Dieudonne
October 26, 2021 - 1:45 pm
Robbie Ethridge, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Mississippi

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.