this is professor christine snyder or she's a professor of history. christina is here to speak mostly about her new book indian settlers and slaves but she's also written before on indian country and the struggles. the casting is by way of reference and excavation of the community of the earlier period of the great crossings and we will hear about that in a moment. my friend and colleague from across town at the history department is the author of a haunting bookcalled an american genocide of the united states and the indian catastrophe which single-handedly recast the history in california in my vi view. but also the recipient a couple of years ago at the "los angeles times" book award for history. so because of the remarkable quality of history in this book. [applause] and at the end of the table from occidental college in the history department, charlotte is the author of this book recaptured african africans of g the dislocation in the final years of the slave trade as a really remarkable story of a kind of eulogy all at once about memory and forg