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Alaina E. Roberts

Alaina E. Roberts

Award-Winning Black & Indigenous Historian; Assistant Professor at University of Pittsburgh; Author of "I’ve Been Here All the While"

Alaina E. Roberts is an award-winning African American, Chickasaw, and Choctaw historian who studies.

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Alaina E. Roberts is an award-winning African American, Chickasaw, and Choctaw historian who studies the intersection of Black and Native American life from the Civil War to the modern day. This focus originates from her own family history: her father’s ancestors survived Indian Removal’s Trail of Tears and were owned as slaves by Chickasaw and Choctaw Indians.

Currently an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh, Dr. Roberts holds a Doctorate in History from Indiana University and a Bachelor of Arts in History, with honors, from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

She writes, teaches, and presents public talks about Black and Native history in the West, family history, slavery in the Five Tribes (the Chickasaw, Choctaw, Cherokee, Creek, and Seminole Indian Nations), Native American enrollment politics, and Indigeneity in North America and across the globe.

In addition to multiple academic articles, her writing has appeared in news outlets like the Washington Post, High Country News, and TIME magazine, and she has been profiled by CNN, Smithsonian Magazine, and the Boston Globe.

Her book, “I’ve Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land” is available for purchase at Amazon as well as at a variety of bookstores and websites.

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Topics

Family history and its Importance in Understanding Broader American culture
Juneteenth and the varieties of Black slavery and emancipation across North America

Strength in Diversity: Using Knowledge of the Past to create Present Relationships

Videos

Videos

Black and Indigenous Solidarities | Black Freedom Lectures | Dr. Alaina E. Roberts @allthewhile1
Interview with Alaina E. Roberts--Native People as "Civilizers" and Slaveholders in Indian Territory

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I'VE BEEN HERE AL THE WHILE
I'VE BEEN HERE AL THE WHILE

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