Angela hudson, an associate and soon to be full professor at texas a m university, an expert in American Indian history, representations of American Indian and popculture as well as intersection of American Indian and africanamerican lives. She received her phd from yale held fellowships at the American Philosophical Society and the rare book and manuscript library, among others. Her first book was called indian settlers and slaves and the making of the american south. Her most recent book is, real native genius how an exslave and a white mormon became famous indians. It was just published from the university of North Carolina press. She is a dear friend and occasional mentor to me. I will dispense with any embarrassing stories and say it is an honor and pleasure to welcome her here today. [applause] thank you for that introduction. Thank you for coming this morning. I will tell you a story today about real native genius. Two of them actually. Like most stories it is unbelievable and h
Soon to be full professor at texas a m university, an expert in American Indian history, representations of American Indian and popculture as well as intersection of American Indian and africanamerican lives. She received her phd from yale in 2007 and has held fellowships at the American Philosophical Society and the rare book and manuscript library, among others. Her first book was called indian settlers and slaves and the making of the american south. It was published in 2010 area her most recent book is, real native genius how an exslave and a white mormon became famous indians. It was just published from the university of North Carolina press. She is a dear friend and occasional mentor to me. I will dispense with any embarrassing stories and say it is an honor and pleasure to welcome her here today. [applause] angela thank you for that introduction. Thank you for coming this morning. I will tell you a story today about real native genius. Two of them actually. Like most stories it
Four years and as a form president and chief he must have realized that this before the war is going to take place if we fail. There mustve been a great sense of responsibility. Anybody else . Does anybody want to grab cspans attention with something outrageous . If not thank you so much, please get a copy of my book if its available outside. [inaudible] i would like to add real native genius thats a perfect conclusion to my talk. Thank you for coming. [applause] [inaudible conversations] our author today is Angela Hudson who is an associate and soontobe professor at texas a m university. Shes an expert in American Indian history, 19th century u. S. South, representations of American Indians and popculture as well as intersection of American Indian and africanamerican lives. She received her ph. D from yale in 2007, and has held fellowships at the newberry library, the american philosophical society, and the rare book and manuscript library, among others. Her first book was called cree
Do some research, as soon, soon as i got there everyone knew who william mccarry was everyone knew because of this narrative that he was the one that caused the ban in 1847. A huge issue in church history, this idea of black men not be to obtain the priesthood. The pileso part of this challenging is not so much the closed nature the relationships to other moms at the time. In more ways than one a greater lots of documents digitize and make available and searchable and accessible. I accessed any of that and when i started to poke into the life of the blessings which are for some people something that should be close to researchers because it is given some elders people in the church, the personal document. Baptismal records because i was trying to find out whether he was rebaptized. The religious history adventure i think. So i ran into a closeddoor command that was incredible. Researching the material about her divorce from her 1st husband using records from illinois that have been put
If theres ever a fascinating all historys fascinating, but this is faze enating to me. Nays nateing to me. I have not fixed on a idea yet, but im hoping. Thank you. Having taught history, your book, i would think, would be really important for young people to write, to have a sense of being there and the journalingnd keeping track of speernses and seeing it through the eyes instead of through experts or historians or whatever. History becomes more integrated into their experience opposed to, you know, listings of times and places, and i would think that would be an interesting book to have in your arsenal. Well, i would love it if became a book like that. [laughter] that was the goal. I just didnt want dates, but what it felt like. I talked about the book in a community college, not far from washington, and it is extraordinary how much people dont know. You know, just by virtue of being young. How would they know . They didnt grow up with parents who fought in world war ii. I explained