Watch Dr. Roberts tell her family's story in a clip from the documentary film,
The Real Wild West
FREEDMEN & AFRO-INDIGENOUS IDENTITIES
WHEN: May 18, 2026, 7:45 pm
WHERE: Zoom
BLACK SLAVES & NATIVE AMERICAN MASTERS
WHEN: May 6, 2026, 11:00 am
WHERE: Seoul, South Korea
CONNECTING CHICKASAW AND CHOCTAW FREEDMEN HISTORY TO ADVOCACY
WHEN: February 28, 2026, 10:30 am
WHERE: Phillips Theological Seminary, Tulsa, OK
BLACK SLAVERY, NATIVE NATIONS, AND A PATH TO RECONCILIATION
WHEN: February 13, 2026, 6:00 pm
WHERE: Carson Ballroom, Arizona State University
DISCUSSION WITH DEAN STACY LEEDS, FORMER CHEROKEE NATION SUPREME COURT JUSTICE
WHEN: February 12, 2026, 12:30 pm
WHERE: Sandra Day O’ Connor College of Law, Arizona State University
BLACK SLAVERY, NATIVE NATIONS, AND A PATH TO RECONCILIATION?
WHEN: December 5, 2025, 1:30 pm
WHERE: Ohio State University
COMPLICATED ENTANGLEMENTS: BLACK AND INDIGENOUS HISTORICAL INTERSECTIONS IN THE PLAINS
WHEN: November 13, 2025, 11:00 am
WHERE: Saskatchewan, Canada
Let's Learn About Chickasaw History with Dr. Alaina E. Roberts and Dr. Robert O. Smith
WHEN: June 30, 2025, 5:30 pm
WHERE: Ardmore Public Library
Learning About Choctaw Freedmen Together with Dr. Alaina E. Roberts and Dr. A. Shane Dillingham
WHEN: June 29, 2025, 2:00 pm
WHERE: Antlers Historic Frisco Depot (Pushmataha County Historical Society)
BLACK SLAVERY, NATIVE NATIONS, AND THE PATH TO RECONCILIATION
WHEN: March 28, 2024, 6:00 pm
WHERE: GEAR 026
Black Slavery, Native Nations, and the Path to Reconciliation
WHEN: March 11, 2024, 4:30 pm
WHERE: Africana Studies & Research Center Multipurpose Room
BLACK AND INDIGENOUS SOLIDARITIES & ANTAGONISMS
WHEN: February 29, 2024, 5:00 pm
WHERE: Septima Clark Auditorium
BLACK SLAVERY, NATIVE NATIONS, AND THE PATH TO RECONCILIATION
WHEN: February 12, 2024, 12:30 pm
WHERE: 101 LeConte Hall
Native American and African American History: Contradictions and Convergences
WHEN: November 2, 2023, 4:45 pm
WHERE: Pharmacy/Biology Building, 131 University of Connecticut
This workshop focuses on the intersections between African American and Native American history. Participants will approach the topic from the vantage point of their scholarship in early U.S. history. We invite audience participation and exchange.
The moderator will be Nancy Shoemaker (University of Connecticut) and the participants will include: Linford Fisher (Brown University), Alaina E. Roberts (University of Pittsburgh), Manisha Sinha (University of Connecticut), and Michael Witgen (Columbia University).
The event will begin at 4:45pm and continue until 6pm, followed by a reception and book signing.
Book signing
WHEN: October 21, 2023, 12:00 pm
WHERE: City Books, Pittsburgh, PA
I've Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land
WHEN: May 21, 2023, 5:00 pm
WHERE: Politics & Prose
Black Freedom on Native Land: Reconsidering Reconstruction, Re-imagining Civil War and Reconstruction Histories Initiative
WHEN: March 9, 2023, 7:30 pm
WHERE: Levis Faculty Center, Room 422, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
I've Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land
WHEN: February 16, 2023, 4:00 pm
WHERE: Online Event
PUBLIC SEMINAR & DISCUSSION
WHEN: February 4, 2023, 9:00 am
WHERE: Zarrow Center, Tulsa, OK
2022 Social Cohesion Dialogue
WHEN: October 20, 2022, 6:00 pm
WHERE: Arizona State University
The Tulsa Race Massacre and Black-Native History in Oklahoma
WHEN: October 1, 2022, 12:00 pm
WHERE: Online Event
BLACK FREEDOM ON NATIVE LAND
WHEN: September 12, 2022, 7:00 pm
WHERE: Online Event
Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize Lecture
WHEN: September 7, 2022, 5:30 pm
WHERE: University of Nebraska, Lincoln & Online
I've Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land
WHEN: March 26, 2022, 4:30 pm
WHERE: Online Event
Black Freedom on Native Land
WHEN: March 15, 2022, 12:30 pm
WHERE: Online Event
Whose Land & Identity Is It Anyway?: Black/Native History in Indian Territory
WHEN: March 3, 2022, 8:00 pm
WHERE: Online Event
Lincoln, The Civil War, and Native Americans
WHEN: February 27, 2022, 2:00 pm
WHERE: HistoryMiami Museum Theater
Bonds Beyond Blood: Afro-Indigeneity and Urban Settler Colonialism
WHEN: February 17, 2022, 8:00 pm
WHERE: Online Event
Book Discussion
WHEN: January 12, 2022, 2:00 pm
WHERE: Online Event
Why Indigenous Peoples' Day?
WHEN: November 30, 2021, 8:00 pm
WHERE: Online Event
I've Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land
WHEN: November 4, 2021, 3:00 pm
WHERE: Online Event
Black Freedom on Native Land
WHEN: October 27, 2021, 4:30 pm
WHERE: Online Event
Discussant for Margaret Jacobs' book, One Hundred Winters
WHEN: October 11, 2021, 8:00 pm
WHERE: Online Event
Book discussion
WHEN: September 22, 2021, 12:30 pm
WHERE: Online Event
Art in Context: Reconstructing Monuments
WHEN: July 28, 2021, 1:00 pm
WHERE: Online Event
I'VE BEEN HERE ALL THE WHILE: BLACK FREEDOM ON NATIVE LAND
WHEN: June 2, 2021, 4:00 pm
WHERE: Online Event
A Broader Historical Context for the Tulsa Massacre
WHEN: June 1, 2021, 1:00 pm
WHERE: Online Event
I'VE BEEN HERE ALL THE WHILE: BLACK FREEDOM ON NATIVE LAND
WHEN: May 27, 2021, 7:00 pm
WHERE: Online Event
Black Freedom on Native Land: A Story of Western Reconstruction
WHEN: May 25, 2021, 6:00 pm
WHERE: Online Event
I'VE BEEN HERE ALL THE WHILE: BLACK FREEDOM ON NATIVE LAND
WHEN: May 20, 2021, 6:30 pm
WHERE: Online Event
Discussion with Robert Keith Collins
WHEN: May 11, 2021, 4:00 pm
WHERE: Online Event
I've Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land
WHEN: May 6, 2021, 6:00 pm
WHERE: Online Event
Black and Indigenous Solidarities
WHEN: May 6, 2021, 6:30 pm
WHERE: University of Chicago
I’ve Been Here all the While: Black Freedom on Native Land
WHEN: May 4, 2021, 6:00 pm
WHERE: Online Event
I'VE BEEN HERE ALL THE WHILE: BLACK FREEDOM ON NATIVE LAND
WHEN: April 29, 2021, 6:00 pm
WHERE: Online Event
Made Local series
WHEN: April 22, 2021, 7:00 pm
WHERE: Online Event
A Western Reconstruction: Black Slaves, Native Masters, and American Intervention
WHEN: April 21, 2021, 4:00 pm
WHERE: Online Event
Discussion with Greg Downs and Kate Masur
WHEN: April 14, 2021, 4:00 pm
WHERE: Online Event
Building Multiracial Democracy in the American West
WHEN: April 7, 2021, 5:00 pm
WHERE: Online Event
I'VE BEEN HERE ALL THE WHILE: BLACK FREEDOM ON NATIVE LAND
WHEN: March 31, 2021, 2:00 pm
WHERE: Online Event
"A Different Forty Acres": Land, Kin, and Migration in the Black and Native West
WHEN: March 9, 2021, 12:00 pm
WHERE: Online Event
Let's Talk: Anti-Racism, Education & Child Development
WHEN: February 26, 2021, 4:00 pm
WHERE: Online Event
Indigenous Sovereignty + Black Liberation
WHEN: February 25, 2021, 4:30 pm
WHERE: Online Event
Black Slaves & Indian Masters: A History of Indian Territory
WHEN: February 4, 2021, 3:00 pm
WHERE: Online Event
A COMPLICATED HISTORY: AFRICAN AMERICAN & NATIVE AMERICAN ALLIANCES AND ANTAGONISMS IN INDIAN TERRITORY
WHEN: May 16, 2020, 10:00 am
WHERE: Online Event
Coming to Terms with an Intertwined African American and Native American History and Present
WHEN: September 13, 2019, 8:00 am
WHERE: Historic Franklin Masonic Hall
The Wages of Settler Colonialism within Indian Country: A Discussion about Tribal Disenrollment
WHEN: September 7, 2019, 9:00 am
WHERE: Porter Hall 100, Carnegie Mellon University
Facing the Black Experience in a Native Space
WHEN: August 29, 2019, 6:00 pm
WHERE: Room 109, Barlett Center for the Visual Arts, Oklahoma State University
This program marks OSU’s participation in a national focus on 400 years of African American history, which began with the arrival of some twenty enslaved Africans to Point Comfort, Virginia in August 1619.