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Native Nations: A Millennium in North America
Kathleen DuVal in conversation with Amanda Cobb-Greetham

Kathleen DuVal’s Native Nations reframes U.S. history through indigenous perspectives, revealing how native societies shaped diplomacy, trade, and resistance. Long before colonization, native civilizations thrived, and even after European arrival, they negotiated on their own terms, shaping global trade, politics, and identity. In conversation with author and academic Amanda Cobb-Greetham, DuVal reframes sovereignty as a constant force in native life, offering a new understanding of American history rooted in the endurance of indigenous nations.

Kathleen DuVal, a history professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, is a Guggenheim Fellow and the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Native Nations: A Millennium in North America, Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution, and the U.S. history textbook Give Me Liberty! She has published in the Atlantic, the New York Times, Time magazine, and the Wall Street Journal.

Amanda Cobb-Greetham (Chickasaw), distinguished Professor of Native American Studies at UNC at Chapel Hill, is a scholar and institution-builder. She is a Guggenheim Fellow and American Book Award winner, the founding director of the Chickasaw Cultural Center and Chickasaw Press, and a former trustee for the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian.

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