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Tiya Miles, Public Historian

by Susan Leem, associate producer

“In my family, there was an oral history about Native American heritage. And it’s one that my grandmother talked about when I was young many a time on her front porch. So when I went to graduate school I wanted to explore this, and I was at a Native American history seminar when I first learned about Native American slave-holding. So I was confronted with two different ideas, or stories, about these relationships.”  —Tiya Miles

The MacArthur Foundation brought this fresh voice to our attention when it announced a public historian as one of their recent “genius” grant recipients. This is a fascinating title, and a weighty responsibility. What makes a historian a “public” one? And once you hear her speak, you’ll ask, “Why aren’t there more?”

(via beingblog:)

Just for everyone’s information, her book Ties that Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom is great.

(via rarelyinhistory)

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