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:
Philip J. Deloria, Indians in Unexpected PlacesRead about the other books on the list.
A professor at Harvard, Deloria (Yankton Dakota) wrote this book to directly counter the myth that Native Americans are people of the past rather than modern human beings, who have changed with the times, just like everyone else. He presents image after image of Native Americans in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries doing the kinds of things that non-Natives at the time were insisting they couldn’t do: playing baseball, riding in automobiles, and singing opera.
--Marshal Zeringue
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