A conversation with Professor Maurice Crandall about his book, These People Have Always Been a Republic: Indigenous Electorates in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, 1598-1912 (University of North Carolina Press, 2019).

Maurice Crandall is a member of the Yavapai-Apache Nation of Camp Verde Arizona and Assistant Professor of Native American Studies at Dartmouth College. He holds a Ph.D. in History from the University of New Mexico and has received multiple honors, awards, and fellowships for his scholarship. Prior to his position at Dartmouth College, Crandall was the Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America at the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University, and a Historical Projects Specialist at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

These People Have Always Been a Republic: Indigenous Electorates in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, 1598-1912 was published in 2019 by the University of North Carolina Press in their David J. Weber Series in New Borderlands History.

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 Podcast Notes:

• Host and Producer Brenden W. Rensink is Associate Director of the Redd Center, an Associate Professor of History at BYU, General Editor of the Intermountain Histories project, and author of the 2018 book Native but Foreign: Indigenous Immigrants and Refugees in the North American Borderlands. Links to other publications and projects here: https://linktr.ee/bwrensink