WHA 2022 John C. Ewers Award Winners

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Congratulations to the #WHA2022 John C. Ewers Award winners,

Alaina E. Roberts for "I Have Always Been Here: Black Freedom on Native Land" 

As someone who wasn't always sure they'd even make it through graduate school, this recognition of my book by my

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colleagues means so, so much. Thank you for really seeing the story I was trying to tell and valuing the experiences of the women & men I study. #WHA2022

Damon B. Akins and William Bauer for "We Are the Land: A History of Native California!"

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Alaina E. Roberts is an award-winning African American, Chickasaw, and Choctaw historian who studies the

intersection of Black and Native American life from the Civil War to the modern day. This focus originates from her own family history: her father’s ancestors survived Indian Removal’s Trail of Tears and were owned as slaves by Chickasaw and Choctaw Indians.

Currently an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh, Dr. Roberts holds a Doctorate in History from Indiana University and a Bachelor of Arts in History, with honors, from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

She writes, teaches, and presents public talks about Black and Native history in the West, family history, slavery in the Five Tribes (the Chickasaw, Choctaw, Cherokee, Creek, and Seminole Indian Nations), Native American enrollment politics, and Indigeneity in North America and across the globe.

In addition to multiple academic articles, her writing has appeared in news outlets like the Washington Post, High Country News, and TIME magazine, and she has been profiled by CNN, Smithsonian Magazine, and the Boston Globe.

Her book, I’ve Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land is available for purchase at Amazon as well as at a variety of bookstores and websites.

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Last week marked the 153rd anniversary of the ratification of the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution in 1865

. Rightly celebrated as a milestone for the black American community, the 13th Amendment led to the eventual liberation of all African Americans enslaved in the United States of the late 19th century. But the 13th Amendment did not free all black enslaved people in the boundaries of modern-day US.

Members of five Native American nations, the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole Nations (known as the Five Tribes), owned black slaves. Then located outside the territorial boundaries of the US in a region known as Indian Territory (modern-day Oklahoma), these sovereign nations were not affected by proclamations or constitutional amendments. Instead, separate treaties had to be made between the US and these Native American nations not only to free enslaved peoples, but also to formally end the American Civil War battles and antagonism between American and Native American troops

Full article:  How Native Americans adopted slavery from white settlers | Conflict...