Lucy Eldersveld Murphy, history, presents “Imagine Them to be a White People: Fur Trade Families Resisting Racialization in the Era of American Indian Removal” as part of the 2014-2015 Arts and Humanities Inaugural Lecture Series.
In the early 19th century, thousands of families of mixed Native American and European ancestry lived in more than 50 communities around the U.S. Midwest. Unlike Hispanics in the Southwest or the Métis of western Canada, however, these populations avoided becoming a marginalized, racialized minority as a result of political factors, economic adaptations and the efforts of women as mediators, and they avoided removal. This lecture will offer case studies of key individuals and events in the Great Lakes region in a comparative transnational context.
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A reception will accompany each lecture. Free and open to all.
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