You're listening to an airwave media podcast.

Ben Franklin's world is 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 Covert. How did indigenous people adapt to and

survive the onslaught of indigenous warfare, European diseases, and population

loss between the 16th and 18th centuries.

How did past generations of indigenous women

ensure that their culture would live on

from one generation to the next

so that their people would continue to endure.

Brooke Bauer, an assistant professor of history at the University of Tennessee Knoxville,

an author of the book Becoming Cataba, Indian Women in Nation Building 1540 to 1840

joins us to investigate these questions and what we might learn from the Cataba.

During our investigation of Cataba life and culture, Brooke reveals information about

Cataba speaking peoples and their Piedmont homelands.

The emergence of the Cataba Nation and the crucial roles women performed to create and adapt katabic culture, and the importance

of kataba women's pottery practices to ensuring the flourishing of katabic culture and the

economic survival of kataba families and communities in the early American

Republic.

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