Ford Evening Book Talk: Colin G. Calloway

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Colin G. Calloway

Colin G. Calloway

Mount Vernon welcomes author Colin G. Calloway to the Robert H. and Clarice Smith Auditorium to discuss his book, The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation. In this sweeping new biography, Calloway uses the prism of Washington's life to bring focus to the great Native leaders of his time - Shingas, Tanaghrisson, Bloody Fellow, Joseph Brant, Red Jacket, Little Turtle - and the tribes they represented: the Iroquois Confederacy, Lenape, Miami, Creek, Delaware; in the process, he returns them to their rightful place in the story of America's founding.

Colin G. Calloway is a Professor of History and Native American Studies at Dartmouth College. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Leeds in England in 1978, served for two years as an associate director and editor of the D'Arcy McNickle Center for the History of the American Indian at the Newberry Library in Chicago, and taught for seven years at the University of Wyoming.

Colin G. Calloway is a Professor of History and Native American Studies at Dartmouth College. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Leeds in England in 1978, served for two years as an associate director and editor of the D'Arcy McNickle Center for the History of the American Indian at the Newberry Library in Chicago, and taught for seven years at the University of Wyoming.