Born and raised in New Orleans, Daniel H. Usner is the Holland N. McTyeire Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in a Frontier Exchange Economy: The Lower Mississippi Valley before 1783; American Indians in the Lower Mississippi Valley: Social and Economic Histories; Indian Work: Language and Livelihood in American History; and Weaving Alliances with Other Women: Chitimacha Indian Work in the New South.
