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Native American Studies March 25, 2023

Lakhota

An Indigenous History

Rani-Henrik Andersson and David C. Posthumus

Hosted by Joaquín Rivaya-Martínez
The Lakȟóta are among the best-known Native American peoples. In popular culture and even many scholarly works, they were once lumped together with others and called the Sioux. This book …

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Military History March 21, 2023

Liberty Is Sweet

The Hidden History of the American Revolution

Woody Holton

Hosted by AJ Woodhams
A “deeply researched and bracing retelling” (Annette Gordon-Reed, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian) of the American Revolution, showing how the Founders were influenced by overlooked Americans—women, Native Americans, African Americans, and religious …
Native American Studies March 20, 2023

Allotment Stories

Indigenous Land Relations Under Settler Siege

Daniel Heath Justice and Jean M. O'Brien

Hosted by John Cable
Daniel Heath Justice and Jean M. O'Brien's book Allotment Stories: Indigenous Land Relations Under Settler Siege (U Minnesota Press, 2021) collects more than two dozen chronicles of white imperialism and Indigenous …
MIT Press Podcast March 8, 2023

The Native American Veterans of Connecticut's Volunteer Regiments and the Union Army

David Naumec

Hosted by MIT Press
Bill Fowler, Chair of The New England Quarterly Board of Directors, and author David Naumec discuss his article "From Mashantucket to Appomattox: The Native American Veterans of Connecticut's Volunteer Regiments …
Geography March 1, 2023

Indigenous Economics

Sustaining Peoples and Their Lands

Ronald L. Trosper

Hosted by Stentor Danielson
What does “development” mean for Indigenous peoples? Indigenous Economics: Sustaining Peoples and Their Lands (U Arizona Press, 2022) lays out an alternative path showing that conscious attention to relationships among …
Native American Studies February 26, 2023

On Savage Shores

How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe

Caroline Dodds Pennock

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe (Knopf, 2023) by Dr. Caroline Dodds Pennock presents a landmark work of narrative history that shatters our Eurocentric understanding of the Age …
Canadian Studies February 18, 2023

A History of the Métis Nation

Discussion with Jean Teillet

Jean Teillet

Hosted by Greg Marchildon
In this podcast episode, Greg Marchildon interviews Indigenous rights litigator Jean Teillet on her book The Northwest is our Mother: The story of Louis Riel’s People, the Métis Nation published …
Native American Studies February 17, 2023

Being Indigenous in Jim Crow Virginia

Powhatan People and the Color Line

Laura Janet Feller

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
Spanning a century of fraught history, Being Indigenous in Jim Crow Virginia: Powhatan People and the Color Line (University of Oklahoma Press, 2022) by Dr. Laura J. Feller describes the …
Women's History February 16, 2023

Teaching Empire

Native Americans, Filipinos, and Us Imperial Education 1879-1918

Elisabeth Eittreim

Hosted by Jane Scimeca
At the turn of the twentieth century, the US government viewed education as one sure way of civilizing “others” under its sway—among them American Indians and, after 1898, Filipinos. Teaching …
Latin American Studies February 16, 2023

On Our Own Terms

Development and Indigeneity in Cold War Guatemala

Sarah Foss

Hosted by Rachel Newman
During the Cold War, U.S. intervention in Latin American politics, economics, and society grew in scope and complexity, with diplomatic legacies evident in today's hemispheric policies. Development became a key …
Religion February 14, 2023

Indigenous Religious Traditions in Five Minutes

Molly H. Bassett and Natalie Avalos

Hosted by Jacob Barrett
Indigenous Religious Traditions in Five Minutes (Equinox Publishing, 2022) edited by Molly H. Bassett and Natalie Avalos aims to answer many of the questions that come to mind when we …
General History February 11, 2023

A Line of Blood and Dirt

Creating the Canada-United States Border Across Indigenous Lands

Benjamin Hoy

Hosted by Caleb Zakarin
A Line of Blood and Dirt: Creating the Canada–United States Border across Indigenous Lands (Oxford UP, 2021), is the recipient of the AHA’s Albert Corey Prize in the history of Canadian–American …
Why We Argue January 26, 2023

Seeing Truth in Museums

A Conversation about the Legacy and Future of Museums with Chris Newell

Chris Newell

Hosted by Alexis Boylan
Feeling down about museums? We have so many reasons to, but Chris Newell, Tribal Community Member-in-Residence at UConn and Director of Education at the Akomawt Educational Initiative, gives a dose …
Academic Life January 19, 2023

The Diné Reader

An Anthology of Navajo Literature

Esther G. Belin and Jeff Berglund

Hosted by Christina Gessler
Today’s book is: The Diné Reader: An Anthology of Navajo Literature, which is the 2022 Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award Winner. The Diné Reader showcases the breadth, depth, and …
Latin American Studies January 15, 2023

The Sovereign Street

Making Revolution in Urban Bolivia

Carwil Bjork-James

Hosted by Brad Wright
In the early twenty-first century Bolivian social movements made streets, plazas, and highways into the decisively important spaces for acting politically, rivaling and at times exceeding voting booths and halls …
Anthropology January 9, 2023

The Ends of Paradise

Race, Extraction, and the Struggle for Black Life in Honduras

Christopher Loperena

Hosted by Alize Arıcan
The future of Honduras begins and ends on the white sand beaches of Tela Bay on the country's northeastern coast where Garifuna, a Black Indigenous people, have resided for over …
American West January 3, 2023

Imperial Zions

Religion, Race, and Family in the American West and the Pacific

Amanda Hendrix-Komoto

Hosted by Stephen Hausmann
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints has always been globally situated, argues Montana State history professor Amanda Hendrix-Komoto in Imperial Zions: Religion, Race, and Family in the American West and the …
American West December 22, 2022

Defending the Arctic Refuge

A Photographer, an Indigenous Nation, and a Fight for Environmental Justice

Finis Dunaway

Hosted by Stephen Hausmann
In far northeastern Alaska lies one of the most remarkable, and contested, places in North America: the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. This coastal arctic region is a place of great natural …
American West December 21, 2022

The North American West in the Twenty-First Century

Brenden W. Rensink

Hosted by Brady McCartney
In 1893 Frederick Jackson Turner famously argued that the generational process of meeting and conquering the supposedly uncivilized western frontier is what forged American identity. In the late twentieth century …
General History December 16, 2022

Bountiful Deserts

Sustaining Indigenous Worlds in Northern New Spain

Cynthia Radding

Hosted by Joaquín Rivaya-Martínez
Common understandings drawn from biblical references, literature, and art portray deserts as barren places that are far from God and spiritual sustenance. In our own time, attention focuses on the …