Presentations
Conference papers, invited talks, and interviews.
- Feb. 18, 2010“Captive or Captivated: Rethinking Encounters in Early Colonial America”Native American Adoption, Captivity, and Slavery in Changing Contexts, The British Museum, London, UK
- Nov. 10, 2006“‘A Great Gathering of Wondering’: The Spiritual Intersections of Indigenous and African Persons in the Early Baptist Church”“The First and the Forced”: Indigenous and African American Intersections, University of Kansas
- Nov. 3, 2006“The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel and Its Mission to Indian and Negro Slaves”Symposium: Black Indians: The Intersecting Histories and Cultures of Native Americans and African Americans, American Society for Ethnohistory Annual Meeting, Williamsburg, VA
- Mar. 17–19, 2005Plenary Speaker, “Learning to Hear the Stories VI: Listening in the Borderlands”“Shifting Borders of Race and Identity,” University of Kansas
- Mar. 17–19, 2005Breakout Workshop Leader“Shifting Borders of Race and Identity,” University of Kansas
- July 2004Radio and television interviews on Black Indian Slave NarrativesMultiple stations
- Jan. 2004“The Spread of Freemasonry among the American Indians of the United States”Annual Meeting of the Ohio Lodge of Research, Columbus, OH
- Nov. 2002“‘No Negro blood runs through his veins…’ American Indian Stories from the Slave Narratives”Southern Historical Association Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD
- Dec. 2001“Blacks and Indians in the United States,” interviewEarthwatch with Robert Knight, WBAI, New York, NY
- Nov. 2000“Exploring the Future and Legacy of Black/Indian Relations,” roundtableWilma Mankiller, moderator. National Congress of American Indians Annual Session, Minneapolis, MN
- Mar. 2000“Living Together in a Sacred Place: The Role of Silver Bluff, S.C. in Our Collective Religious Experience”‘Eating Out of the Same Pot’: Relating Black and Native (Hi)stories, A Cross-Cultural Symposium, Dartmouth College
- Nov. 1999“‘all my Slaves, whether Negroes, Indians, Mustees, or Molattoes’: Towards a Thick Description of ‘Slave Religion’”Afro-American Religions Section, American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Boston, MA
- Nov. 1995“‘I am Keetoowah’s Son’: Cherokee Nationalism and the Civil War”Native Religious Traditions Section, American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA
- Feb. 1995“The Keetoowah Society in Cherokee History”Robert T. Handy Seminar, Union Theological Seminary
- Nov. 1994“Beneath the Underdog: Race, Religion, and the Trail of Tears”North American Religions Section, American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL
- Mar. 1994“Apocalypse Now: The Realized Eschatology of the Christian Identity Movement”New Religious Movements Section, Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting, American Academy of Religion