Oct. 22 Lecture Explores Origins of Federal Native American Policy

By Lanita Withers Goins, University Relations

Contact: (336) 334-3890

Posted 10-7-09

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Dr. Daniel Usner will speak on “John Adams and Native Americans: Paradoxical Origins of Federal Indian Policy” at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 22, in the auditorium of the Sullivan Science Building.

The public is welcome at no charge.

Usner is the Holland McTyeire Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. He has written extensively on the relationship between Native Americans and settlers during America’s infancy. Currently, he is writing a political history of Native Americans in the United States and a close-up study of the Chitimacha Indians in south Louisiana.

Usner’s talk is part of the Richard S. Wells Lectures, which were established in 2005 by UNCG alumnus Keith Sutton Wells and named in honor of Richard S. Wells, a retired professor of political science at the University of Oklahoma.

For more information, contact the Department of History at (336) 334-5992 or history_department@uncg.edu.