and it's my pleasure to tonight's event over to laura schober, bookmarks administrator who's going tot and introduce our featured author. pretty good everybody hear me okay? okay. wonderful author here this evening, kathleenofessor 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 forn prize and native ground indians andent. she is coauthor of give me liberty and voices from colonial america. youtonight. i am very excited to moderatethis event, a brilliant book. in because you're here to hear from kathleen and not 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 writin natve. right. thank you, larry. it's such a pleasure. be here. i think the main reason i wanted to write this book is sort of think that a nominate americans. see native americans in all kinds of places thesevs and in big supreme court the north carolina museum of art right now. i it can be har