and it's my pleasure to hand tonight's event over to laura schober, bookmarks administrator who's going to moderate event and introduce our featured author. pretty good evening and everybody hear me okay? okay. awesome. i am here to introduce our wonderful author here this evening, kathleen duval she is a professor of history at the university of north carolina at chapel, where she teaches early american and american indian history. her previous work includes independence lost, which was a finalist for the washington prize and native ground indians and colonists in the heart of the continent. she is coauthor of give me liberty and coeditor of interpreting a continent voices from colonial america. you would welcome kathleen here tonight. i am very excited to moderate this event, a brilliant book. i'm going to sort of just dive in because you're here to hear from kathleen and not me. there will be a question answer at the end of our conversation. so, kathleen, if you summarize, just to begin the scope of the book and share us your goals for writing native nations. right. thank you, larry.