On this edition of Conversations, Camilla Townsend talks with host Dan Skinner about the book she co-authored along with Nicky Kay Michael, “On the Turtle’s Back: Stories the Lenape Told Their Grandchildren.” Townsend is the Board of Governors Distinguished Professor of History at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. She has published widely on Indigenous history and language in the Americas. Her books include “Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma,” and most recently, “Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs.”
“On the Turtle’s Back: Stories the Lenape Told Their Grandchildren”
