Gregory D. Smithers is Professor of History at Virginia Commonwealth University and a British Academy Global Professor with the Treatied Spaces Research Cluster at the University of Hull. He is the author of numerous books, including The Cherokee Diaspora: An Indigenous History of Migration, Resettlement, and Identity (2015); Native Southerners: Indigenous History from Origins to Removal (2019); and forthcoming with Beacon Press, Reclaiming Two-Spirits: Sexuality, Spiritual Renewal, & Sovereignty in Native America.