Challenged after a tax law eliminated the penalty for not having healthcare insurance. Listen to the oral arguments live at 10 am eastern on cspan, live a report or on the cspan radio app. Hello and welcome to the atlantic History Centers virtual talk series, im sylvia prescott. Tonight i am talking about his new book on were the republic, the dispossession of native americans in indian territory. Purchase the book directly from a cappella books , theres a link in the chat and theres also a link provided on the atlantic institute. As claudia and i are talking about please use the q and a feature atthe bottom of your screen. And i will take as many as time allows. He is professor of american history, codirector of the virtual history and associate director of the institute of native american studies. He is the author of three previous books on american history, west of the revolution, black white and indian and a new order. Claudio saunt, thank you for joining us and welcome. Thank you
Institute of native american studies. Author of three previous books. West of the revolution. Thank you so much for joining us and welcome. Let me think the atlanta history center. Unworthy republic challenges the idea that some histories have the expulsion of the how much land first that they own in the southeast in the decades before the 1830s. They are a huge amount of half of alabama and two thirds of what became mississippi about a fifth of georgia. And its not just about how much land they own. But how much valuable the land was probably in the entire world. At the time. It covered the entire United States. We think of it as a southern story. And it mostly was. The indian people in the north who were removed as well. They are much smaller. By the early 19th century. You do cover a number of other tribes. I know that it is different from tribe to tribe and state to state. What kind of autonomy do they head in the south. What kind of autonomy do they head in the south. It was also
Institute of native american studies at the university of georgia. Hes the authohe is the author e previous books west of the revolution, black white and a new order of things. Thank you for joining us and welcome thank you for sponsoring this event. It challenges the idea that so many have represented the expulsion as an inevitability. Youve covered a lot of evidence of political motivations. How much land first did indian zone in the southeast and the decades before the 1830s . They owned a huge amount. Half of what became mississippi and about a fifth of georgia. Its how valuable the land was. It was among the most valuable probably in the entire world at the time. We think of it largely as a southern story. They have much smaller spots of land by the early century. You cover a number of other tribes expelled from new york and ohio and i know it differs from tribe to tribe and state to state but what kind of rights or autonomy did they have lets say in the south . It is contested to
Reacts to it and grapples with it. So today i want to frame our discussion around a couple of quotations. The first is from the anthropologist and fox. Fox writes, Country Music is widely described in racialized terms. Assures sins of its essential badness is frequently framed and racial terms. For many cosmopolitan americans, especially country is bad music because it is widely understood to signify an explicit claim to whiteness. Not as an unmarked mutual condition as locking or trying to shed race, but as marked of cultural identity. Bad whiteness, and redeem by ethnicity, folklore authenticity, progressive politics or than no plus a bleach of elites. I want us to think about that, Country Music as articulating current being this type of marked white particularity. So thats the first quote, the second. Its from the writer and historian roxanne dunn bar, and her book red dirt. Which is a great memoir of growing up in oklahoma, she writes. Country music, wrote patriotism, evangelism,
Anthropologists erin fox. Fox writes, Country Music is widely disparaged in racialized terms and assertions of its essential ban is are frequently framed and specifically racial terms. For many cosmopolitan americans, especially, country is bad music precisely because it is widely understood to signify an explicit claim to whiteness. Not as an unmarked neutral condition of lacking or trying to shed race, but as a mark for a grounded claim of cultural identity, bad whiteness, and redeemed by ethnicity. Folklore ache authenticity, a league musical culture. I want us to think about that. Country music as articulating and conveying this type of very marked white particularly. All right, so that is the first quote. The second is from the writer and historian roxanne dumb bar ortiz in her book red dirt. It is a great memoir of growing up in oklahoma. She writes, Country Music, evangelism, romanticism, patriotism and White Supremacy have been able to coalesce my people, the descendants of the