Dr. Robbie Ethridge concludes the inaugural Delta State Native American Heritage month celebration with a lecture Nov. 19 at 7 p.m. in the BPAC Recital Hall.Dr. Robbie Ethridge, chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Mississippi, and editor of the journal Ethnohistory, will conclude the inaugural Delta State Native American Heritage month celebration with a lecture on pre-contact Mississippian leadership practices Nov. 19 at 7 p.m. in the BPAC Recital Hall.
The title of Ethridge’s talk is “When Giants Walked the Earth: Chief Tascaluza and Indian Leadership in the Ancient South.”
In addition to writing several articles and book chapters on the history of native peoples of the American South, she is the author of “Creek Country: The Creek Indians and Their World, 1796-1816” and the Mooney Award-winning book “From Chicaza to Chickasaw: The European Invasion and the Transformation of the Mississippian World, 1540-1715.” Both were published by the University of North Carolina Press.
Her current research is on the rise and fall of the Mississippian world, which examines the rise of pre-Columbian Mississippian chiefdoms, the 700-year history of this world, the collapse of this world with European contact and the restructuring of the native South into the colonial South.
The event is free and open to the public. For additional information, contact 662-846-4177.
