Paul Kelton

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Professor Kelton’s primary interests are indigenous responses to colonialism. His latest book is Epidemics and Enslavement: Biological Catastrophe in the Native Southwest, 1492-1715 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007); and he is currently working on a book entitled “Pestilence and Persistence: Colonialism's Biological Allies and the Survival of the Cherokee Nation." He is the author of “Avoiding the Smallpox Spirits: Colonial Epidemics and Southeastern Indian Survival,” Ethnohistory 51 (Winter 2004): 45-71; “The Great Southeastern Smallpox Epidemic,” in Transformation of the Southeastern Indians, 1540-1760, ed. Robbie Ethridge and Charles Hudson, (Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 2002); and "'At the Head of the Aboriginal Remnant': Cherokee Construction of a 'Civilized' Indian Identity During the Lakota Crisis of 1876," Great Plains Quarterly, 23 (Winter 2003): 3-17.