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Growing up, we’re often taught that there’s a natural societal progression from hunting and gathering, to farming, and then to towns and cities. But as Professor Kathleen DuVal (UNC-Chapel Hill) illuminates in Native Nations, and in conversation, that conception is very Eurocentric. It obscures, among many things, the vast landscape of Native American c…