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Ben Franklin's World

314 Native Americans in Early American Cities

Ben Franklin's World

Liz Covart

History, Society & Culture

4.41.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2021

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever considered early American cities as places where Native Americans lived, worked, and visited? Native Americans often visited early American cities and port towns, especially the towns and cities that dotted the Atlantic seaboard of British North America. Colin Calloway, an award-winning historian and a Professor History and 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. Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/314 Complementary Episodes 🎧 Episode 029: Colin Calloway, The Victory With No Name 🎧 Episode 132: Coll Thrush, Indigenous Londo 🎧 Episode 139: Andrés Reséndez, The Other Slavery  🎧Episode 223: Susan Sleeper-Smith, A Native American History of the Ohio River Valley & Great Lakes Region 🎧 Episode 264: Michael Oberg, The Treaty of Canandaigua REQUEST A TOPIC 📨 Topic Request Form 📫 liz@benfranklinsworld.com WHEN YOU'RE READY 🗞️ BFW Gazette Newsletter  👩‍💻 Join the BFW Listener Community LISTEN 🎧 🍎 Apple Podcasts  💚 Spotify  🎶 Amazon Music 🛜 Pandora CONNECT 🦋 Liz on Bluesky 👩‍💻 Liz on LinkedIn 🛜 Liz’s Website SAY THANKS 💜 Leave a review on Apple Podcasts 💚 Leave a rating on Spotify Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You're listening to an airwave media podcast.

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Ben Franklin's world is a production of the

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Omaha Institute and is sponsored by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.

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

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The podcast dedicated to helping you learn more about how the people and events of our

0:29.6

early American past have shaped the present day world we live in.

0:33.2

And I'm your host, Liz Kovart.

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

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Where do you see Native Americans living?

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What's around them?

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What kinds of buildings do they live in?

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

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

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include images of Native Americans

0:54.3

in early American cities and poor towns.

0:57.1

It turns out that it was actually quite common for early Americans to encounter Native Americans

1:01.6

in the European Port

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towns and cities that dotted early North America,

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especially those cities and Port towns

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along the Atlantic seaboard of British North America.

1:11.1

Colin Callaway, an award-winning historian and professor of history and Native American studies at Dartmouth College,

1:17.0

joins us to investigate Native American experiences in early American cities,

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