she stuck to fay yarbrough tonight speaker, i'm very excited to introduce you to her, she's doctor fay yarbrough, professor of history and associate dean of rice university. she's an expert on 19th century native american history, and she has special interest in the interactions between indigenous people, and people of african descent during the 19th century. so her first book was race in the cherokee nation, 17 in the 19th century. her most recent book is called choctaw confederates, the american civil war and indian country. if you recognize the title, that book is the subject of tonight's talk. it's also basically brand-new. i noticed it's official publication date was two years ago. it's a two-week birthday for your book this evening. we're excited to share it with you. you can find it in all the usual bookstore places, as well as directly from the university of north carolina press publishers. the top will be around 30 to 35 minutes, also. we'll have plenty of time for a discussion at the end. the way we do discussion, if you've been to these events before, we do it all through th