FLORENCE-The Florence-Lauderdale Public Library will be hosting a history seminar and a documentary screening in March. Two events youn will not want to miss.
“The Original Great Tye” and How It Was Broken: Creek Indian History in Three Acts
with Dr. Kathryn H. Braund
Sunday, March 13, 2:00 pm
Florence-Lauderdale Public Library
Alabamians rightly take pride in the early history of their state, including the exotic and complex history of the Creek people who once claimed this land as their own. In this retrospective, Kathryn Braund will look at the major eras of Creek Indian history, touching on their link to the British through the deerskin trade, their material culture and economy, and the changing nature of tribal authority as plantation agriculture and herding replaced trade as the “way to wealth” in the Indian nation.
Kathryn H. Braund was educated at Auburn University (MA, 1980) and Florida State University (PhD, 1986). Her research focuses on the ethnohistory of the Creek and Seminole Indians in the eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Her first book was Deerskins and Duffels: The Creek Indian Trade with Anglo-America, 1685-1815 (1993). The second edition of Deerskins and Duffels was released in 2008. She is the co-author, with Gregory A. Waselkov, of William Bartram on the Southeastern Indians (1995). She is editor of an annotated version of Bernard Romans’s A Concise Natural History of East and West Florida (1999) and an annotated edition of James Adair’s 1775 classic History of the American Indians (2005). Fields of Vision: Essays on the Travels of William Bartram, 1739-1823, co-edited with Charlotte M. Porter, was released by the University of Alabama Press in 2010. Tohopeka: Rethinking the Creek War, a collection of essays, was released in August 2012.
Dr. Braund is currently working on a book about the Creek War of 1813-1814 and a guidebook to the Old Federal Road in Alabama. She is current President of the Friends of Horseshoe Bend and is the past president of the Alabama Historical Association and the Bartram Trail Conference.
Draughon Seminars are funded by the Kelly Mosley Endowment in honor of Dr. Ralph B. Draughon, Auburn University president from 1947 to 1965, a historian with a deep commitment to both state history and public education.
For more information about this event, call 256-764-6564, ext. 28.
Documentary Screening: The Mama Sherpas
with Safer Birth in Bama
Saturday, March 19, 12:30 pm
Florence-Lauderdale Public Library
In 2012, one in three babies in America were delivered by c-section, despite the World Health Organization’s recommendation that Cesarean births remain below 15 percent. How can these disturbing trend be reversed? In recent years, the idea of a collaborative care practice where doctors and midwives manage women’s care together has begun to gain traction in the United States. The Mama Sherpas is a feature-length documentary film about women receiving their maternity care through midwife-doctor teams. The film follows nurse midwives, the doctors they work with, and their patients to provide an investigative lens into how midwives work within the hospital system.
This screening is hosted by Safer Birth in Bama. For more information about this event, call 256-764-6564, ext. 28.
