Native Circles
This podcast features Native American and Indigenous voices, stories, and experiences for everyone to learn, not only in North America but also throughout the world. The founders of Native Circles are Dr. Farina King (Diné) and Sarah Newcomb (Tsimshian), who were inspired to start this podcast to educate wider publics about the interconnections and significance of Native American, Alaska Native, and Indigenous experiences and matters. The primary co-hosts of the podcast are Dr. King, Dr. Davina Two Bears, and Eva Bighorse. Dr. King is the Horizon Chair of Native American Ecology and Culture and an associate professor of Native American Studies at the University of Oklahoma. Newcomb works as a freelance editor, writer, and blogger with degrees in English and a focus in Non-Fiction Creative Writing. Dr. Two Bears (Diné) is a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow in the School for Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University. Bighorse (Cayuga and Diné) is an Indigenous human development advocate with expertise in tribal healthcare relations. Learn more about the podcast and episodes on the official website of "Native Circles" at https://nativecirclespodcast.com/.
Native Circles
Liz Ellis and "The Great Power of Small Nations"
Dr. Elizabeth (Liz) Ellis talks with co-hosts Davina Two Bears and Farina King about her journey, which led her to writing her first book The Great Power of Small Nations: Indigenous Diplomacy in the Gulf South. She highlights aspects of the book and her research that trace the formation of Native Nations in the early Southeast and the ways that Indigenous migration and immigration practices shaped and limited the extent of European colonization. Liz is Peewaalia and a citizen of the Peoria Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma. She serves as her nation's historical liaison. She is an associate professor of history at Princeton University, who specializes in early American and Native American history. While her research focuses on the seventeenth and eighteenth-century South, Liz also writes about contemporary Indigenous issues and political movements. She is committed to organizing and fighting for Indigenous self-determination. She is currently working on a project on early Indigenous iconography and is part of a collaborative research initiative with the Miami and Peoria tribes that is focused on reclaiming historical stories and material culture.
Resources:
Book webpage for The Great Power of Small Nations: Indigenous Diplomacy in the Gulf South (2022)
Elizabeth (Liz) Ellis official faculty webpage for the Department of History at Princeton
"Sitting down with Elizabeth Ellis, Native American History scholar" (October 9, 2022)
"Behind The Research: Elizabeth Ellis Illuminates Native American Histories," Princeton Alumni Weekly
Dr. Liz Ellis also collaborates on the Reclaiming Stories Project, the “Unsettled Refuge” working group on Indigenous histories of North American Sanctuary, and the “Indigenous Borderlands of North America” research project.
*Please note the following correction from Dr. Liz Ellis: At 7:35 of the episode, Dr. Ellis misspoke when she said that “so half of our nation is Miami, so we’re Peoria, Miami, Kaskaskia, and Wea.” She meant to rather say “Peoria, PIANKESHAW, Kaskaskia, and Wea.” Both the Wea and Piankeshaw are historically Miami, but she did not mean to use Miami when she said that.
