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Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory


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Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory

DATE: Thursday, April 3 2025
TIME: 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm MST
LOCATION: Offsite
COST: Free and open to the public.
ABOUT THE EVENT:

The American West Center is sponsoring two events with the acclaimed historian Dr. Claudio Saunt. On Thursday, April 3, from 3:30-5 PM in LNCO 2110, Dr. Saunt will discuss his newest book Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory, which documents the deportation of the Five Tribes from the Southeast into Oklahoma.

The following day, April 4, from noon-1 PM in Digital Matters, Dr. Saunt will present his accompanying digital history project, “The Land Beneath Our Feet,” which maps Cherokee land and the loss of Cherokee family homes.  Light refreshments will be served.

Both events are free and open to the public.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:

a headshot of a middle-aged bald man next to the "Unworthy Republic" book cover Dr. Claudio Saunt is Richard B. Russell Professor in American History, Regents’ Professor, and Co-Director of the Center for Virtual History at the University of Georgia. He is the author of four books, including West of the Revolution (2014), Black, White, and Indian (2005), and A New Order of Things (1999). His most recent book, Unworthy Republic (2020), was awarded the Bancroft Prize, the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, and the Ridenhour Book Prize, and was a finalist for the National Book Award. He has developed several online projects, including the Invasion of America and, with Elizabeth Fenn, Pox Americana. In 2018, he received an NEH Humanities Collections and Reference Resources grant to produce an online, interactive time-lapse map of the African, Native, and European populations in North America between 1500 and 1800. Supported by a 2022 Guggenheim fellowship, his current project, “The Land Beneath Our Feet,” maps in depth and detail the Cherokee families who lost their homes in the 1830s, creating a virtual representation of the Cherokee Nation just before the United States drove its sixteen thousand citizens off their farms and across the Mississippi River.

 

These events are brought to you by the American West Center with the Stegner Center joining as a sponsor.

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For questions about this event, email events@law.utah.edu.


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