About which greg spoke here a few years ago. His newest book, the subject of todays lecture, native southerners indigenous history from origins to remove. Please give a warm welcome to our friend greg smithereens. Let me begin by acknowledging the Traditional Land owners of this region. Members of the chief them and people. Thank you for that kind introduction, and to graham who organized todays lecture, thank you. Its much appreciated. Its lovely to be back here. At the Virginia Museum of history and culture. Im going to begin today by talking a little bit about the artwork on the cover of my new book. This is a piece by a a cheap who passed, and he was a chickasaw and choctaw chief, born in 1921 in oklahoma. If anyone knows anything about that part of the world, in the 19 twenties and thirties, you will know its not an easy place to be native american. So he grew up seeing lynchings on a fairly regular basis, of about native and African American people. He grew up experiencing impove
Dr. Gregory d. Smithers, an associate professor of history at virginia commonwealth university, specializes in native American History. Else the author of several books including an indigenous history of migration, resettlement and identity about which greg spoke here a few years ago. And his newest book and the subject of todays lecture native southerners indigenous history from origins of removal. Please give a warm welcome to our guest speaker, greg smithers. [ applause ] let me first begin by acknowledging the traditional landowners of this region, members of the powatan chiefdom and the chickahawpee people. Thank you to those who organized this. Its much appreciated and its lovely to be back here at the Virginia Museum of history and culture. I hope i got that right. Im going to begin today by talking just a little bit about the artwork on the cover of my new book. This is a piece by chief terry saul. Hes was hes passed, now hes walked on. Chief terry saul was chickasaw and chokta
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Neil 22 years ago this day, the magnitude of an unimaginable and unprecedented attack on u. S. Soil was sinking and across the country and across the world, markets would never open that day. By the time that they did on september 17, 2001 they would plummet more than 7 and keep plummeting bodily being out on september 21 after falling more than 1367point and 14 , newspapers and magazines with jargon and depression headlines talking up more correctly down in any talk of an eminent turnaround, some predicted a years long recession or worse and other solid dismal fate for the bastion of capitalism in the downtown new york city itself was destined to become a financial chernobyl to be avoided and shun one publications a decade, the reality was different although stocks were indeed hammered, they did come back, not in years, more than weeks thats how long it took the market average to recover the ground that they lost. It would be a bumpy ride and certainly a tragic one. But if the perpetr