397 Native Nations: A Millennium in North America

Ben Franklin's World

Liz Covart

History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 5 November 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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The North American continent is approximately 160 million years old, yet in the United States, we tend to focus on what amounts to 3300 millionths of that history, which is the period between 1492 to the present. Kathleen DuVal, a Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, asks us to widen our view of early North American history to at least 1,000 years. Using details from her book, Native Nations: A Millennium in North America, DuVal shows us that long before European colonists and enslaved Africans arrived on North American shores, Indigenous Americans built vibrant cities and civilizations, and adapted to a changing world and climate. Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/397 Complementary Episodes 🎧 Episode 037: Independence Lost 🎧 Episode 189: The Little Ice Age 🎧 Episode 223: A Native American History of the Ohio River Valley & Great Lakes Region 🎧 Episode 264: The Treaty of Canandaigua 🎧 Episode 286: Native Sovereignty 🎧 Episode 310: History of the Blackfeet 🎧 Episode 323: American Expansion and the Political Economy of Plunder 🎧 Episode 362: Treaties Between the U.S. & Native Nations REQUEST A TOPIC 📨 Topic Request Form 📫 liz@benfranklinsworld.com WHEN YOU'RE READY 🗞️ BFW Gazette Newsletter👩‍💻 BFW Listener Community🌍 The History Explorers Club 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.
0:04.2	Ben Franklin's World is a production of Colonial Williamsburg Innovation Studios.
0:09.3	Native nations have always been and still are diverse and different from each other.
0:13.6	But one of the things I really stress about that period a thousand or so years ago is the presence of very large-scale civilizations,
0:23.5	large-scale agriculture-based cities,
0:27.7	feeding large numbers of people
0:29.8	with pretty prominent religious and political leaders,
0:33.4	quite comparable to other parts of the world
0:35.5	at the same time, including Western Europe.
0:45.7	Hello and welcome to episode 397 of Ben Franklin's World, the podcast dedicated to helping you
0:53.4	learn more about how the people
0:54.9	and events of our early American past have shaped the present-day world we live in.
0:59.5	And I'm your host, Liz Cobart.
1:01.9	The North American continent is approximately 160 million years old, and yet we Americans
1:07.5	tend to focus on what amounts to 3,300 millionths of that history,
1:12.7	which is roughly the period between 1492 and the present. Now, in her new book, Native
1:17.6	Nations, a millennium in North America, Kathleen Duval, a professor of history at the University
1:23.0	of North Carolina Chapel Hill, asks us to widen our view of early North American history to at least
1:28.8	1,000 years. Because long before European colonists and enslaved Africans arrived on the
1:34.9	eastern shores of North America, indigenous Americans had built vibrant cities and civilizations,
1:40.7	and they adapted to a world that was changing even before colonists arrived.
1:45.5	Kathleen believes that we can learn a lot by adding and centering indigenous peoples and histories
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