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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 Kovart. When Christopher Columbus arrived

in quote, the New World in 1492, he and his fellow Spaniards arrived in a place

where slavery already existed.

Long before European arrival, indigenous peoples and nations practiced enslavement.

Now their version of enslavement looked different from the version that Christopher Columbus and his fellow Europeans practiced, but indigenous slavery also shared many similarities with the Euro-American practice of African chattels slavery.

While there is no way to measure the exact impact of slavery upon the indigenous peoples of the Americas,

we do know that the practice involved many millions of indigenous people who were captured, bound, and sold as enslaved people.

Estevon Rial Galvez, an anthropologist, historian, and historical consultant,

joins us to discuss a new digital project designed to tell the stories of the indigenous enslaved.

This digital project is called Native Bound Unbound,

Archive of Indigenous Slavery.

Now as we explore the Native Bound Unbound Project,

Estevan reveals the goals of the Native Bound Unbound Digital Archive

and why Estevan and his team started this project.

The origins of European controlled indigenous slavery in the Americas.

In details about the scope of indigenous slavery and why this topic is not a more well-known

part of United States history.

But first, the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation runs the world's largest museum

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