This talk explores the worlds of the Indigenous peoples of North America before European colonization. North America was a place filled with cities, towns, and villages. Across the continent, Indigenous peoples produced architecture and monumental construction. The ancient and medieval communities of North America were fed by agriculture. Moreover, Indigenous Americans actively managed their environment and participated in long distance exchange networks.

 

Return guest speaker to Thayer Memorial Library, Dr. Christoph Strobel is Department Chair and Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Most recently he is the author of War and Colonization in the Early American Northeast, Native Americans of New England, and The Global Atlantic. He has published many other books and academic papers.