BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Find Local//findlocal.community//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:3cd90642-8a9f-4d5e-aef3-179535b2826a@findlocal.community DTSTAMP:20261026T203109Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261104T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261104T200000 SUMMARY:Indigenous Conflict In Early America/ Presented with CLAW DESCRIPTION:At Charleston Library Society. In partnership with C of C’s C arolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World Program\, we are pleased to invite a timely discussion on North America’s Indigenous conflicts during the Colonial Era and at pivotal moments during the American Revolution. With a specific focus on the late 18 th century\, CLAW Program Director Dr. Sandy Slater will host a conversation with subject matter experts Dr. An drew Johnson and Professor Kevin Kokomoor on their recent publications\, which put South Carolina and its First Peoples into greater context and shed light on an overlooked aspect of this important history. Purchase Tickets HERE! About the Books The Cherokee War of 1776 The forgotten his tory of the US war against the Cherokee offers a crucial reframing of Am erica’s origin story. Americans remember 1776 as the year liberty was de clared\, the moment they cast off tyranny and proclaimed the self-eviden t truths of equality and freedom. But that same summer\, as patriots cel ebrated their defiant new nation\, American armies launched another camp aign—this one aimed at destroying the Cherokee nation. The Cherokee War of 1776 recasts America’s founding moment by tracing the importance of w estward ambition and settler violence to the origins of the Revolutionar y War. In this gripping and sobering book\, historian Kevin Kokomoor unc overs the rarely acknowledged war waged by the emerging United States ag ainst the Cherokee people just days after the Declaration of Independenc e was signed. Far from a spontaneous frontier skirmish\, this war was a coordinated\, state-backed campaign with a clear aim: seize Indigenous l and and crush Native resistance. Many of the very men who championed lib erty on parchment simultaneously advocated for the wholesale destruction of a sovereign Native nation. At the heart of this story is Cherokee re sistance\, which was strategic\, determined\, and deeply rooted in commu nity dynamics. Figures like Dragging Canoe emerged to lead a movement th at endured long after American armies had burned Cherokee towns to the g round. Kokomoor foregrounds Cherokee voices\, motivations\, and resilien ce\, challenging the notion that they were merely pawns in a colonial st ruggle and forcing us to reckon with the real costs of independence and the long fight for Indigenous sovereignty. Enslaved Native Americans and the Making of Colonial South Carolina In 1708\, the governor of South C arolina responded to a request from London to describe the population of the colony. This response included an often-overlooked segment of the p opulation: Native Americans\, who made up one-fourth of all enslaved peo ple in the colony. Yet it was not long before these descriptions of ensl aved Native people all but disappeared from the archive. In Enslaved Nat ive Americans and the Making of Colonial South Carolina\, D. Andrew John son argues that Native people were crucial to the development of South C arolina’s economy and culture. By meticulously scouring documentary sour ces and creating a database of over 15\,000 mentions of enslaved people\ , Johnson uses a uniquely interdisciplinary approach to reconsider the h istory of South Carolina and center the enslaved Native people who were forced to live and work on its plantations. Johnson also employs spatial analysis and examines archaeological evidence to study Native slavery i n a plantation context. Although much of their impact is absent from the historical record\, Native people’s influence persisted: in the specifi c technologies they brought to the plantations where they were enslaved\ ; in the development of Creole culture\; and in the wealth and power of the founders and early leaders of the colony. This book is an important corrective to our understanding of the colonization and development of S outh Carolina. By focusing on the Native minority of the enslaved popula tion\, Johnson recasts the colonial history of America\, uncovering the importance of enslaved Native people to the colonial project and the com plex historical connections between race and slavery. About Professor Ke vin Kokomoor (from 2024) Kevin Kokomoor is a fourth-generation Floridian who grew up in the Tampa Bay area. He earned his bachelor’s and master’ s Degrees in History at the University of South Florida and his Doctorat e in Early American History at Florida State University. His first acade mic position after graduate school was at Coastal Carolina University in Myrtle Beach\, South Carolina\, where he is currently employed. In addi tion to La Florida\, he has also authored several articles in academic j ournals\, including Journal of Southern History\, Georgia Historical Qua rterly\, Florida Historical Quarterly\, Journal of Sport History\, and J ournal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. He won the Thompson Award for the best article published in Florida Historical Quarterly in 2009 a nd the E. Merton Coulter Award for the best article published in Georgia Historical Quarterly in 2013. In 2017 he was a Howard H. Peckham Fellow of Revolutionary America at the Clements Library at the University of M ichigan. Other sources of support include the American Philosophical Soc iety\, the David Library of the American Revolution\, Emory University\, and the University of Florida. About Dr. Andrew Johnson Dr. Andrew John son is a historian of early America and the early-modern Atlantic and is the editor of publications at the South Carolina Department of Archives and History. He received his bachelor’s degree from the University of S outh Carolina and PhD from Rice University. The winner of numerous acade mic awards\, including The Fletcher M. Green and Charles W. Ramsdell Awa rd from the Southern Historical Association for the best article publish ed in the Journal of Southern History over a two-year period. His public ations include Enslaved Native Americans and the Making of Colonial Sout h Carolina (Johns Hopkins University Press)\, the Journals of the House of Representatives of South Carolina\, 1794–1795 (South Carolina Departm ent of Archives and History)\, as well as co-editing Atlantic Environmen ts and the American South (University of Georgia Press). About Dr. Sandy Slater Dr. Sandra Slater is Professor of History and Director of the Ca rolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World Program (CLAW) at the College of Ch arleston. She has published widely in scholarly journals such as Church History and the Journal of Early American History. Her recent book\, The Pompe and Pride of Man: Pride and Humility in Early New England was pub lished in 2025 and was nominated for the Winthrop Prize. Professor Slate r is the chair of the Native American Task Force at the College of Charl eston and in her role as Director of CLAW\, works with scholars\, public historians\, archives and museums across the Atlantic World to host aca demic programming at CofC.\n\nTickets: https://charlestonlibrarysociety. org/event/indigenous-conflict/\n\nhttps://findlocal.community/event/3cd9 0642-8a9f-4d5e-aef3-179535b2826a LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King St\, Charleston\, SC 29401 URL:https://findlocal.community/event/3cd90642-8a9f-4d5e-aef3-179535b2826 a STATUS:CONFIRMED SEQUENCE:0 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR