“Women, Labor, and Power in the Nineteenth-Century Choctaw Nation”

Professor Fay Yarbrough, Associate Dean of Humanities at Rice University, will present “Women, Labor, and Power in the Nineteenth-Century Choctaw Nation,” co-hosted by UGA professors Ervan Garrison and Jim Wilson for the Homeland Returns series in Native Amercian studies at UGA. Yarbrough will discuss Choctaw women’s roles in Choctaw society during the tumultuous nineteenth century, which included the removal of the Choctaw people from the southeastern United States to Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma, and their alliance with the Confederacy during the Civil War.

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