342 The Great Power of Small Native Nations

Published: Nov. 8, 2022, 6 a.m.

Did you know that small Native American nations had the power to dictate the terms of French colonization in the Gulf South region?

Elizabeth Ellis, an Assistant Professor of History at Princeton University and a citizen of the Peoria Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma, joins us on an exploration of the uncovered and recovered histories of the more than 40 distinct and small Native nations who called the Gulf South region home during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.\xa0Ellis is the author of The Great Power of Small Nations: Indigenous Diplomacy in the Gulf South.

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