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Hello and welcome to episode 314 of Ben Franklin's World.

The podcast dedicated to helping you learn more about how the people and events of our early American past have shaped the present-day world we live in.

And I'm your host, Liz Covart.

How do you picture everyday life for Native Americans in early America?

Where do you see Native Americans living?

What's around them? What kinds of buildings do they live in?

What kinds of jobs and activities do you see them doing?

Do any of the mental images that you've just created include images of Native Americans

in early American cities and port towns?

It turns out that it was actually quite common for early Americans to encounter Native Americans in the European port towns and cities that dotted early North America,

especially those cities and port towns along the Atlantic seaboard of British North America.

Calling Callaway, an award-winning historian and professor of history in Native American Studies at Dartmouth College,

joins us to investigate Native American experiences in early American cities with details from his book,

The Chiefs Now in this City, Indians and the Urban Frontier in early America.

Now during our conversation, Colin reveals why it's important to understand interactions and diplomatic relationships between Native American peoples and white Europeans and Americans.

Why Native Americans visited early American cities?

And how Native Americans experienced early American city life and entertainments?

But first, just as a reminder that this Thursday, October 28th at 6.30pm Eastern,

I'll be participating in a virtual program with a Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

That program is called Inside Ben Franklin's World, a conversation with Liz Covart.

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