New York could not have become the Empire State without a systematic program of Indigenous dispossession. In this talk, Michael Leroy Oberg will discuss the history of genocidal violence and dispossession that the American Revolution unleashed, posing critical questions about the nature of the movement for independence on the nation’s semiquincentennial.
Michael Leroy Oberg is Distinguished Professor of History at SUNY-Geneseo and founder of the Geneseo Center for Local and Municipal History. His books include Peacemakers: The Iroquois, the United States, and the Treaty of Canandaigua, 1794, Uncas: First of the Mohegans, and The Central Fire of the Iroquois: A Five-Hundred Year History of the Onondaga Nation.
Registration is recommended but not required.
This is an in-person program that will also be livestreamed at:
https://www.youtube.com/@RochesterPublicLibraryNY/streams
This event is presented by the Local History & Genealogy Division.
