John Peyton is a Public History graduate student at IUPUI. His research focuses on Indigenous peoples and questions of sovereignty in the Western Great Lakes at the turn of the 19th century. He has been working for the Polis Center on the RUC 2.0 project since December 2020 and is grateful for the experience he has gained in analyzing matters of religion in society.
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