David La Vere is professor of history at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. He is the author of The Tuscarora War: Indians, Settlers, and the Fight for the Carolina Colonies; Looting Spiro Mounds: An American King Tut’s Tomb; and Contrary Neighbors: Southern Plains and Removed Indians in Indian Territory, along with several other titles.

La Vere skillfully analyzes a complicated history previously oversimplified. Many scholars have traditionally treated the indigenous peoples of what is today eastern North Carolina as passive, though sympathetic, recipients of a colonization process that caused their ‘disappearance’ after the Tuscarora war. . . . La Vere carefully keeps Indigenous peoples at the center of his narrative, as he should." - Christopher Arris Oakley, author of New South Indians: Tribal Economics and the Eastern Band of Cherokee in the Twentieth Century

David La Vere is professor of history at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. He is the author of The Tuscarora War: Indians, Settlers, and the Fight for the Carolina Colonies; Looting Spiro Mounds: An American King Tut’s Tomb; and Contrary Neighbors: Southern Plains and Removed Indians in Indian Territory, along with several other titles.

La Vere skillfully analyzes a complicated history previously oversimplified. Many scholars have traditionally treated the indigenous peoples of what is today eastern North Carolina as passive, though sympathetic, recipients of a colonization process that caused their ‘disappearance’ after the Tuscarora war. . . . La Vere carefully keeps Indigenous peoples at the center of his narrative, as he should." - Christopher Arris Oakley, author of New South Indians: Tribal Economics and the Eastern Band of Cherokee in the Twentieth Century

David La Vere is professor of history at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. He is the author of The Tuscarora War: Indians, Settlers, and the Fight for the Carolina Colonies; Looting Spiro Mounds: An American King Tut’s Tomb; and Contrary Neighbors: Southern Plains and Removed Indians in Indian Territory, along with several other titles.

La Vere skillfully analyzes a complicated history previously oversimplified. Many scholars have traditionally treated the indigenous peoples of what is today eastern North Carolina as passive, though sympathetic, recipients of a colonization process that caused their ‘disappearance’ after the Tuscarora war. . . . La Vere carefully keeps Indigenous peoples at the center of his narrative, as he should." - Christopher Arris Oakley, author of New South Indians: Tribal Economics and the Eastern Band of Cherokee in the Twentieth Century