JAMES F. BROOKS is the Carl and Sally Gable Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Georgia. He is the author of Captives & Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands and Mesa of Sorrows: A History of the Awat’ovi Massacre. He has also edited several volumes, including Small Worlds: Method, Meaning, and Narrative in Microhistory; Keystone Nations: Indigenous Peoples and Salmon across the North Pacific; and Linking the Histories of Slavery: North America and Its Borderlands. Brooks also serves senior consulting editor of the Public Historian.