Media

Tiya’s highly acclaimed book, All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake, is now available for purchase in paperback. Publisher: Penguin Random House. Order now.

” ‘1619 Project’ can help America talk about race” —  H. Philip West Jr. cites Tiya’s writing, included in The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story, on the brutal enslavement of Black and Indigenous people in the formative years of the United States in his essay in The Providence Journal on the importance of the book The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones.  Published January 11, 2022.

“Want to read more in 2022? Here are 4 books to get you started” — Jason Mott, author of “Hell of a Book,” joined TODAY to share his four recommendations to read in the first month of 2022 including All That She Carried. Published January 4, 2022.

“Give the Gift of Books This Holiday Season” — Joshunda Sanders, editor at Oprah Daily, recommends All That She Carried as a gift book this holiday season. She writes, “Even before it won the National Book Award, I had been thinking a lot about All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake—how often Black women must keep the family record, so even if we lose track of one another, our stories will outlast us. Here, the noted historian follows the trail of an object handed down through three generations of Black women, and I am…blown away.” Published December 23, 2021.

“Reads for the Rest of Us: 2021 Best of the Rest” — Karla Strand, gender and women’s studies librarian at Ms. Magazine, chose Tiya’s book All That She Carried as one of her favorite books of the year. Published December 20, 2021.

“PEN America announces 2022 Literary Award Longlists” — PEN America announced the Longlists for its Literary Awards. Tiya’s book, All That She Carried, is one of ten books longlisted for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction; the winner is considered “a distinguished book of general nonfiction possessing notable literary merit and critical perspective that illuminates important contemporary issues.” The finalists for the Literary Awards will be announced in late January 2022, with an in-person ceremony in late February. Published December 2021.

“The Best Books of 2021” — Vulture’s Hillary Kelly writes, “All That She Carried balances two aims: to share what it can of Ruth Middleton’s matrilineal family and to explore what their lives might tell us about the experiences of other Black women connected, thread by thread, to an uncertain past. The result is as delicate and determined as the story that inspired it.” Published December 15, 2021.

“Times Critics’ Top Books of 2021” — The New York Times’s staff critics give their choices of the best fiction and nonfiction works of the year. One of Jennifer Szalai’s recommendations is Tiya’s book All That She Carried.  Published December 15, 2021.

“Who Read What: Writers Share Their Favorite Books of 2021” — Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, author of “The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois”, writes of Tiya’s book “All That She Carried” in the Wall Street Journal, ‘In “All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake,” renowned scholar Tiya Miles examines the intersections between material and human history by focusing on a burlap sack that was passed down through generations. …More than the story of the sack and the symbolic love it contained—given by a devoted, enslaved mother whose child is about to be sold away from her—Ms. Miles’s book explains (with a light hand) the importance of historical memory, when some in this country still are intent upon erasing black lives.’ Published December 8, 2021.

“Year in review: Best Books of 2021” — “Starting with a simple, humble item — a cotton sack with hand-stitched words on it — Harvard historian Miles embarks on a journey over time and space, through slavery and freedom, and into a revolutionary understanding of the brilliance and power of Black maternal love,” writes Kate Tuttle at The Boston Globe. Published December 2021.

“Book Riot’s Best Books of 2021” — Isabelle Popp at Book Riot describes Tiya’s All That She Carried as “A true gem.” Published December 10, 2021.

“Nonfiction food titles to feed the soul for the holidays” — From the Times Union on All That She Carried: “This stunning read is an analysis of an embroidered sack that’s the artifact of the sale of an enslaved child and her mother’s devotion.” Published December 8, 2021.

“The Best Books of 2021” — All That She Carried landed on Laura Miller’s list of ten most enjoyed books of 2021. She writes, “This National Book Award winner is a beautiful and heartbreaking evocation of the stories history so often fails to tell. ” Published by Slate on December 8, 2021.

“Bill’s Books” — Bill Goldstein included Tiya’s book, All That She Carried, as one of his favorite books of the year during his “Bill’s Books” segment on NBC Weekend Today in New York. This segment aired December 5, 2021.

“NPR’S BOOK OF THE DAY: ‘All That She Carried’ weaves together generations of Black women” — Hear why Tiya’s All That She Carried was selected as NPR’s Book of the Day. Published December 1, 2021.

“The 100 Must-Read Books of 2021” — Tiya’s book All That She Carried is on Time Magazine’s list of 100 must-read books of 2021.

“Smithsonian Scholars Pick Their Favorite Books of 2021” — All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake is recommended by Paul Gardullo, director, Center for Global Slavery, National Museum of African American History and Culture. He writes, “God bless Tiya Miles for giving us this beautiful, heartbreaking book about this simple object that a mother gave her daughter before they were to be sold away and a granddaughter who embroidered and made visible its enduring message of love. Miles finds it bottomless because it is filled with love across generations that cannot be quenched by slavery. The author puts her whole heart and soul all the way into it.” Smithsonian Magazine. Published November 24, 2021.

“Holiday Gift Guide” — “It’s on so many lists!” Tiya’s book All That She Carried was mentioned on Book Riot’s Holiday Gift Guide episode November 23, 2021.

“Meet the Recently Announced 2021 National Book Award Winners & Runners-Up” — The Mary Sue introduces the 2021 National Book Award winners. From their description of Tiya’s All That She Carried, “In addition to the anthropological elements, Miles unpacks the metaphorical and invaluable elements of these objects. Historian Tiya Miles gives us a narrative, object history, and social history of this family and relates it to the wider shared experience of Black Americans through and after slavery.” Published November 22, 2021.

“Getting through those tough Thanksgiving conversations” — NPR revisits a conversation with Tiya about the book All That She Carried. NPR spoke with Tiya back in June (2021). This program aired on November 22, 2021.

“Authors Jason Mott and Tiya Miles Win National Book Awards” — Ebony announced, “Noted historian and Harvard University professor Tiya Miles won the nonfiction prize for All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake.” Published November 19, 2021.

“Tiya is the Winner of the National Book Award 2021 for Nonfiction” —The National Book Foundation announced Tiya as the winner of the 2021 National Book Award for nonfiction prize.
Watch Tiya accept the award at The 72nd National Book Awards Ceremony (1:40 mark in the event recording).

“Jason Mott Wins National Book Award for ‘Hell of a Book’” — The New York Times announced Tiya and her book All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake as the winner of the National Book Award for nonfiction prize. The judges called All That She Carried “a brilliant, original work,” examining a compilation of lives “that ordinary archives suppress.”

“3 Massachusetts authors win National Book Awards” — Tiya told The Boston Globe, “It feels like an earth-moving kind of experience to have my work on this particular subject recognized in this way… The subject matter of the book is really what’s most important, and the opportunity to introduce ideas and enlarge ideas in the public sphere is so precious.” Published November 18, 2021 in The Boston Globe.

“Here are the Winners of the 2021 National Book Awards” —  “On its surface, Ashley’s sack is an intimate family heirloom. In Miles’s artful hands, though, the object is transformed—an embodied memoir of Black women traveling from slavery to freedom, South to North, carrying relics and hopes as they seek new lives.” Published November 18, 2021 in Oprah Daily.

“The 10 Best Books of 2021” — The Washington Post Editors and Reviewers have All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake on their list of the ten best books of 2021: “These 10 standouts are an eclectic bunch, but all will make you see the world a little differently.” Published Nov. 18, 2021.

“From Henry Louis Gates Jr., Another Scholarly Megaproject” — A series of books on Black thinkers and artists, each by a leading contemporary author will be published by Penguin Press starting in 2023. Tiya is one of two dozen pairings announced so far and her book will focus on Harriet Tubman. Published Oct 20, 2021 in The New York Times.

“Finalists Announced for This Year’s National Book Awards” — Tiya’s All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake was announced as one of five finalists for the 2021 National Book Award in the nonfiction category. The finalist for this award will be announced live on Wednesday, November 17 at the 72nd National Book Awards Ceremony (online event). Published Oct 5, 2021.

“2021 NBA Longlists Announced” —Tiya’s All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake was announced as a nominee for the 2021 National Book Award in the nonfiction category. The five finalists for this award will be named on October 5 and the winner will be announced during the awards ceremony on November 17. Published Sep 16, 2021. Read the full announcement on Publishers Weekly.

“Finalists for 2021 Kirkus Prize Are Revealed” — Kirkus announced that Tiya is one of 18 finalists in three categories for the annual Kirkus Prize, one of the richest literary awards in the world. Tiya’s All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake is a finalist in the nonfiction category. This year’s winners will be announced at a virtual ceremony livestreamed from the Austin Public Library in Austin, Texas, on Oct. 28.

“Whitehead’s ‘Harlem Shuffle’ among Kirkus Prize nominees” — Tiya’s All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake is a finalist for the annual Kirkus Prize in the nonfiction category. Published September 13, 2021. AP News.

“A&S Professor Scott Manning Stevens Awarded a Radcliffe Institute Fellowship” — Tiya is mentioned in Syracuse University News. Published August 10, 2021.

“Briefly Noted” — From The New Yorker Books section: “This powerful history of women and slavery revolves around a nineteenth-century cotton sack found at a flea market in 2007, now on view at the Smithsonian. An enslaved woman named Rose gave it to her daughter Ashley when she was sold and they were separated. As Miles tries to add to this information, embroidered on the sack by Ashley’s granddaughter, she finds that reconstructing marginalized histories “requires an attentiveness to absence as well as presence.” She uses the item and its contents—a tattered dress, a handful of pecans, and a braid of hair—to explore the lives of Black women in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and her meticulous research ultimately reveals the probable origins of the keepsake’s former owners.” The New Yorker. Published July 26, 2021.

“The Layered Histories in Black Family Keepsakes” — Tiya discusses what she terms “the conundrum of the archives” — the historical record of marginalized peoples, and what inspired her to write All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake. From Harvard Magazine. Published July 21, 2021.

“Overlooked No More: ‘Skipped History’ Explores Forgotten Events” — In a recent interview in The New York Times, Ben Tumin, creator of the series “Skipped History,” referenced Tiya’s phrase “the conundrum of the archives,” the struggle historians face when written records favor those who had the education, power, or wealth to document their lives through their own writings or in recordings of public record while leaving little to no trace of those who were enslaved, less educated, or poor. Published July 17, 2021.

“History Cafés introduce us to abolitionist women who buoyed Black city life from 18th century on” — Tiya was the first scholar to be featured at the History Café, held May 21, 2021. The innovative program featured a conversation between Tiya and several of her students on Harriet Jacobs and Cambridge’s women abolitionists.Watch the live recording of Tiya’s appearance. Cambridge Day. Published July 12, 2021.

“Shelf Life” — From the Jacksonville Journal-Courier, a list of new books at the Jacksonville Public Library: “All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake” by Tiya Miles: ‘This is the poignant story of love passed down through generations of women and a testament to the creativity and resourcefulness it takes to keep and to reveal the histories of people left out of the archives.’ Published July 10, 2021.

“Your 2021 summer reading list, recommended by Capital Area District Libraries” — All That She Carried is on the Lansing State Journal’s summer reading list. “Professor and historian Tiya Miles pieces together a deeply moving story of love and loss passed through three generations of women, starting in the 1850s.” Published July 1, 2021.

“Her Daughter About To Be Sold Away, An Enslaved Mother Carefully Packs Her A Sack” — ‘It is rare that we get to peer inside one of the hastily prepared bundles that sold or escaping enslaved people grasped in times of sudden change. Each item Rose packed for so significant a parting was both essential and versatile. The tattered dress could protect a body from exposure and shield an enslaved girl’s inner dignity. This piece is excerpted from Tiya’s book All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, A Black Family Keepsake and can be read in The Harvard Gazette. Published June 22, 2021.

“New in Nonfiction” (link unavailable) — All That She Carried was highlighted in People Magazine, “A bag of totemic belongings passed from an enslaved mother to her daughter starts historian Miles on a journey to document their lives.” Published June 2021.

“A Simple Cotton Sack Tells an Intergenerational Story of Separation Under Slavery” — An overview of Tiya’s work tracing the lives of three Black women through an embroidered family heirloom known as “Ashley’s sack” in Smithsonian Magazine. Published June 18, 2021.

“9 New Books We Recommend This Week” — All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, A Black Family Keepsake is an editors’ choice for The New York Times list of recommended reading the week of June 17: ‘Our critic Jennifer Szalai calls it “a remarkable book, striking a delicate balance between two seemingly incommensurate approaches: Miles’s fidelity to her archival material, as she coaxes out facts grounded in the evidence; and her conjectures about this singular object, as she uses what is known about other enslaved women’s lives to suppose what could have been.”’ Published June 17, 2021.

“A Testament To The Horrors Of Slavery & The Perseverance Of Black Women, Rendered In Needle And Thread” — ‘Nevertheless, with steady hands we can thread the eye of this needle and ask what Ruth’s record can tell us about Black women, Black families, women crafters, and Black material, as well as social, worlds. By doing so, we refuse to give up on those many people of the past who did not—could not—leave behind troves of documents.’ This piece is excerpted from Tiya’s book All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, A Black Family Keepsake and can be read online at Jezebel. Published June 14, 2021.

“How The Survivors Of Slavery Used Material Objects To Preserve Intergenerational Wisdom” — ‘Having been treated as possessions and deprived of ownership of themselves, their families, crops they nurtured, and objects they made and maintained, African American survivors of slavery recognized the world of things. They lived each day in haunted awareness of the thin boundary line between human and non-human, a thinness daily exposed and abused by slave societies. Despite the prominence of a Cartesian duality in Western philosophy that proposed a clear split between spirit and matter, enslaved Blacks knew that people could be treated like things and things prized over people.’ This piece is excerpted from Tiya’s book All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, A Black Family Keepsake and can be read online at Literary Hub. Published June 10, 2021.

“To Find The History Of African American Women, Look To Their Handiwork”  — ‘A granddaughter, mother, sewer, and storyteller imbued a piece of old cloth with all the drama and pathos of ancient tapestries depicting the deeds of queens and goddesses. She preserved the memory of her foremothers and also venerated these women, shaping their image for the next generations. Without Ruth, there would be no record. Without her record, there would be no history.’ This piece is excerpted from Tiya’s book All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, A Black Family Keepsake and can be read in The Atlantic. Published June 9, 2021.

“Five Books To Get You Through The Month of June” — All That She Carried is one of five books on BET‘s recommended reading for the month of June. Cheryl S. Grant writes, “Miles beautifully crafts their stories and that of other women like them through archival records, objects, and art that captures traces of lives and love through generations.” Published June 8, 2021.

“Summer reads: 20 books to savor this season.” — The Washington Post editors and reviewers added Tiya’s most recent book, All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake, to their recommended summer reading list.  Published by The Washington Post, June 2, 2021.

“New & Noteworthy, From Hidden Treasure to a Relic of Slavery.” — Tiya’s latest book,  All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, A Black Family Keepsake, is considered one of The New York Times “recent titles of interest.” Published by The New York Times, June 1, 2021.

“15 New Books Coming in June.” — All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, A Black Family Keepsake, Tiya’s latest book, landed on a New York Times featured books list for a second time in the month of May. Published by The New York Times, May 26, 2021.

“Summer Is Coming. Bring a Book.” — Tiya’s latest book, All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, A Black Family Keepsake, landed on The New York Times’ list of top 24 summer reads. Published by The New York Times, May 19, 2021.

“Hot new Southern books put the sizzle in summer 2021” — All That She Carried is one of  “10 Southern books we’re eager to read this summer” writes Suzanne Van Atten of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Published May 11, 2021.

“Quilters are weaving personal histories of the Black experience: ‘We’re a people with a lot of stories to tell’” —
Tiya discusses Harriet Powers, the “mother of the African-American story quilt tradition,” in this feature piece on The Sisters in Stitches. Published by GLOBE MAGAZINE, Boston Globe, March 11, 2021.

“15 anti-racist Michigan books to get you through the holidays and quarantine” — Bridge Michigan recommends Tiya’s book The Dawn of Detroit “for a greater understanding of the formation of the United States and of early Detroit, and for engaging stories about freed and enslaved families on both sides of the border.” Published December 1, 2020.

“Reading up on race? Here are more than 30 Michigan authors to check out” — Michigan Public Radio recommends reading Tiya Miles as an author with Michigan ties who’s written extensively about race. Published July 2, 2020.

“Michigan Bookshelf” —”Tiya Miles has skillfully assembled fragments of a distant historical record, introducing new historical figures and unearthing struggles that remained hidden from view until now. “In her eloquent account,” the Washington Post declared, “Miles conjures up a city of stark disparity and lives quashed.” Holland Sentinel Michigan, June 2020.

“PW Picks: Books of the Week picks” — Winner of a Bronze Multicultural Fiction Award from Foreword Reviews and a 2016 Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in fiction, The Cherokee Rose was also chosen as a book of the week by Publisher’s Weekly. PW Picks: Books of the Week picks.

In The History of Ghosts, a series on BBC Radio, Kirsty Logan explores the history of ghost lore. In episode 6, “The Whitewashed Ghost” (air date October 26, 2020), the topic is one of which Tiya is deeply familiar — the romanticization of relationships between slave owners and enslaved young women and girls. In the “Extra Interview,” Tiya shares her experiences of stumbling into the world of Ghost Tours in the Southern United States, how the stories we tell, and how we tell them, can reshape the way we experience history as well as the present day, and how these experiences inspired her to write her own ghost story, The Cherokee Rose: A Novel of Gardens and Ghosts. Listen to Tiya’s in-depth interview: The Haunted South.

“Defining the American West” — The 2019 Presidential Plenary featured William Cronon, Edward L. Ayers, Lisa Brooks, Susan Lee Johnson, Tiya, and George Sánchez and aired on C-SPAN’s American History TV in October 2019.

“The Spirited Afterlife of Detroit’s Little Red Demon” — Tiya offered her thoughts to Atlas Obscura on the 18th century Detroit Demon that is said to stalk the streets of Detroit tormenting (or teasing?) the locals. Published October 2019.

For their feature The 25 Moments From American History That Matter Right Now, TIME Magazine asked Tiya and other acclaimed experts in U.S. history to nominate moments that resonate in the United States today. Tiya offers “a cautionary tale about the refusal of a president to respect the courts and the failure of the nation’s leaders to protect the rights of indigenous people.” July 2018.

“I Feel Like I Am Part of a Great Moment” — Tiya helps to contextualize why dark skin beauty, shunned from the fashion industry for so long, is suddenly being embraced. In the New York Times Fashion & Style section, March 2018.

“The Memory Keeper” — MacArthur ‘genius’ Tiya weaves African American and Cherokee histories into a vivid—and often tragic—tapestry. Emory Magazine. Published winter 2012.

“Detroit’s dark secret: Slavery” — Michigan Today featured an overview of Tiya’s effort to shed some light on Detroit’s dark secret in her book, The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits.” Refuting some long-held stereotypes about the early American North and South, Tiya paints a picture of Detroit from about 1760 to 1815, when Native Americans and African Americans were considered property.” February 2018.

“Book excerpt: ‘Dawn of Detroit,’ explores southeast Michigan’s history of slavery” — The Detroit Free Press recently highlighted an excerpt from The Dawn of Detroit that explores southeast Michigan’s history of slavery. January 2018.

“U-M prof’s The Dawn of Detroit offers a fresh perspective on the city’s history” — The Detroit Metro Times’ Larry Gabriel shares a fresh perspective on the rebirth of the city of Detroit and points to Tiya’s insight into what can be learned from its past.  January 2018.

“Detroit’s forgotten history of slavery detailed in new book” — Tiya was on Michigan Public Radio’s Stateside to discuss the Detroit’s forgotten history of slavery detailed in her new book The Dawn of Detroit. December 2017.

“12 New Books We Recommend This Week” — Tiya’s book, The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits, was recommended by The New York Times Book Review as an Editor’s Choice pick, calling it “rich and surprising.” November 2017.

“Giving by the book: A rundown of Detroit tomes for the literates in your life” — The Detroit Metro Times’ list included Tiya’s book  The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits. November 2017.

“U-M professor breaks down Detroit’s racist history in ‘New York Times’”  — Read Alysa Zavala-Offman’s op-ed published in the Detroit Metro Times. (Audio of the article is also available.) September 2017.

The House on Diamond Hill: A Cherokee Plantation Story was recently referenced in TIME Magazine in an op-ed written by Arica L. Coleman, author of That the Blood Stay Pure: African Americans, Native Americans and the Predicament of Race and Identity in Virginia and chair of the Committee on the Status of African American, Latino/a, Asian American, and Native American (ALANA) Historians and ALANA Histories at the Organization of American Historians. Read the article. September 2017.

Fresh Takes on the Declaration of Independence
— Tiya was one of twenty-four scholars from across the country to be asked to review a copy of the original Declaration of Independence and offer their perspective on its words and meaning. Tiya contributed to this Harvard project in 2017.

“How Clinton and Sanders Pursue Change, Academically Speaking” — Tiya was quoted in The New York Times about the 2016 Democratic presidential candidates and the complexity of race as a political issue, March 2016.

Savannah Black Heritage Festival wraps up with lectures, storytelling, Ugandan Kids Choir — Tiya honors Savannah’s civil rights icon W.W. Law on Feb. 18, giving a talk on “African Americans in Cherokee History” as a guest speaker at the W.W. Law Lecture Series.

“Symposium tells the hidden stories of Georgia’s coast” — Tiya spoke to a crowd of more than 450 attendees at the Coastal Georgia Center in February 2016. At the “Coastal Nature, Coastal Culture” symposium, Miles lectured about ghost tourism, and incorporated the actual history and retelling of an Igbo Landing revolt on St. Simons in which the enslaved people brought from Nigeria chose suicide over bondage, also known as the “Flying Africans.”

“What Learning about the Earth Can Do for a Girl” — Tiya explains her decision to create Eco Girls and how she felt compelled to address the connection between girls and the environment.  The American Association of University Women (AAUW), March 2015.

“Who Gets To Decide Who Is Native American?” — A roundtable discussion on the NPR show “Tell Me More.” August 2012.

“The Genius of Dr. Tiya Miles” — An article about the McArthur Fellowship awarded to Tiya. BLAC Detroit. April 2012.

Tiya was listed in Ebony Magazine’s Power 100 of 2011.

Tiya was awarded a 2011 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship for her work on African American and Native American history. View the MacArthur Foundation announcement, or read the coverage by the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, AnnArbor.com, the Chronicle of Higher Education, the University Record, and the Michigan Daily. Also listen to the NPR All Things Considered announcement of the grant winners, and read the blog entry about Tiya by Professor Emerita Kathy Jones of San Diego State University.

“Scholar Documents Historic Ties Between African-Americans and Native Americans” — An article on Tiya’s scholarship and current Native American—African-American controversies. Published in Diverse, December 2010.

“Researcher to have book signing during Vann House Day” — An article about Tiya’s research on the Vann plantation and her book signing at the Vann House. Published in the Dalton Daily Citizen, July 2010.

“Symposium: IndiVisible: African-Native American Lives in the Americas” — Tiya spoke at this 2009 symposium that aimed to bring visibility to African-Native American lives and initiate a healing dialogue on African-Native American experiences for people of all backgrounds.

“Slave Was on Her Own Mission” — An article by Mary Giunca about a lecture Tiya gave in Old Salem. Published in the Winston-Salem Journal, March 3, 2007.

Fall 2007 article about Tiya in University of Michigan’s LS&A Magazine.

“Historian finds shared roots between blacks and Native Americans” — A 2007 article on Tiya in the Dallas Morning News.

“Minority groups urged to work together” — A 2005 article in the Michigan Daily about an event held by the Native American Student Association at which Tiya spoke about the need for reconciliation between Native American and African American communities.