Kathleen DuVal is a Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her field of expertise is early American history, particularly interactions among Native Americans, Europeans, and Africans on the borderlands of North America.
Her books include Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution and Native Nations: A Millennium in North America.
At Lit Hub DuVal tagged five books that "go deeply into Native American history, and all are written by Native authors." One title on the list:
Brenda J. Child, Holding Our World Together: Ojibwe Women and the Survival of CommunityRead about another title on the list.
Women rarely get their deserved place in history books, but sometimes a book, by focusing on women, can change how we see the whole history. Child, a University of Minnesota professor and a citizen of the Red Lake Ojibwe, tells how Ojibwe women shaped Native American life through the ages. As we learn their stories, we understand that women “held their world together” even as the forces of colonialism tried to destroy Native families and nations.
--Marshal Zeringue
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