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General History December 16, 2021

Race, Removal, and the Right to Remain

Migration and the Making of the United States

Samantha Seeley

Hosted by Derek Litvak
Samantha Seeley is the author of Race, Removal, and the Right to Remain: Migration and the Making of the United States, published by the University of North Carolina Press in …

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American West January 10, 2022

Becoming Mary Sully

Toward an American Indian Abstract

Philip J. Deloria

Hosted by Stephen Hausmann
Mary Sully was many things: a Dakota woman, an artist, and an American living through a heyday of early celebrity culture in the United States. All of these facets of her …
Art December 6, 2021

Art of the Northwest Coast

Second Edition

Aldona Jonaitis

Hosted by Kirstin Ellsworth
Originally published in 2006, Art of the Northwest Coast offers an expansive history of this great tradition, from the earliest known works to those made at the beginning of the twenty-first …
Environmental Studies November 29, 2021

After One Hundred Winters

In Search of Reconciliation on America's Stolen Lands

Margaret D. Jacobs

Hosted by Brady McCartney
After One Hundred Winters: In Search of Reconciliation on America's Stolen Lands (Princeton UP, 2021) confronts the harsh truth that the United States was founded on the violent dispossession of …
Native American Studies November 29, 2021

Settler Memory

The Disavowal of Indigeneity and the Politics of Race in the United States

Kevin Bruyneel

Hosted by John Cable
Kevin Bruyneel confronts the chronic displacement of Indigeneity in the politics and discourse around race in American political theory and culture, arguing that the ongoing influence of settler-colonialism has undermined …
General History November 23, 2021

Confederates and Comancheros

Skullduggery and Double-Dealing in the Texas-New Mexico Borderlands

James Bailey Blackshear and Glen Sample Ely

Hosted by Mark Klobas
A vast and desolate region, the Texas-New Mexico borderlands have long been an ideal setting for intrigue and illegal dealings--never more so than in the lawless early days of cattle …
Native American Studies November 16, 2021

Progressive New World

How Settler Colonialism and Transpacific Exchange Shaped American Reform

Marilyn Lake

Hosted by John Cable
The paradox of Progressivism continues to fascinate more than one hundred years on. Democratic but elitist, emancipatory but coercive, advanced and assimilationist, Progressivism was defined by its contradictions. In Progressive …
Political Science November 11, 2021

Diversity's Child

People of Color and the Politics of Identity

Efrén O. Pérez

Hosted by Lilly Goren
Political Scientist Efrén Pérez’s new book, Diversity's Child: People of Color and the Politics of Identity (U Chicago Press, 2021), explores the term and category “people of color” and how …
African American Studies November 9, 2021

I've Been Here All the While

Black Freedom on Native Land

Alaina E. Roberts

Hosted by Adam McNeil
Perhaps no other symbol has more resonance in African American history than that of 40 acres and a mule--the lost promise of Black reparations for slavery after the Civil War …
Performing Arts November 5, 2021

Buffy Sainte-Marie

The Authorized Biography

Andrea Warner

Hosted by Andy Boyd
Andrea Warner's Buffy Sainte-Marie: The Authorized Biography (Graystone Books, 2018) tells the story, often in Buffy's own words, of the life of the remarkable artist and activist. Buffy Sainte-Marie's musical career is …
Native American Studies October 27, 2021

As Long As Grass Grows

The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice from Colonization to Standing Rock

Dina Gilio-Whitaker

Hosted by John Cable
Through the unique lens of “Indigenized environmental justice,” Indigenous researcher and activist Dina Gilio-Whitaker explores the fraught history of treaty violations, struggles for food and water security, and protection of …
Anthropology October 26, 2021

Connected

How a Mexican Village Built Its Own Cell Phone Network

Roberto J. González

Hosted by Hussein Mohsen
Connected: How a Mexican Village Built Its Own Cell Phone Network (U California Press, 2020) is the true story of how, against all odds, a remote Mexican pueblo built its own …
Latin American Studies October 11, 2021

Soldiers, Saints, and Shamans

Indigenous Communities and the Revolutionary State in Mexico's Gran Nayar, 1910-1940

Nathaniel Morris

Hosted by Geert Slabbekoorn
The Mexican Revolution gave rise to the Mexican nation-state as we know it today. Rural revolutionaries took up arms against the Díaz dictatorship in support of agrarian reform, in defense …
Native American Studies September 28, 2021

Oaxaca Resurgent

Indigeneity, Development, and Inequality in Twentieth-Century Mexico

A. S. Dillingham

Hosted by Annabel LaBrecque
Oaxaca, in the view of the Mexican federal government, was in need of serious reform at midcentury. Reports detailing issues of land ownership, language education, and poverty prompted the Institutio …
British Studies September 21, 2021

Sensitive Negotiations

Indigenous Diplomacy and British Romantic Poetry

Nikki Hessell

Hosted by Charles Prior
Diplomatic relationships between Indigenous sovereigns and colonial and settler governments were defined by language. In some cases, cultural divides were narrowed using common metaphors. In others, objects such as wampum …
American West September 1, 2021

Black Snake

Standing Rock, the Dakota Access Pipeline, and Environmental Justice

Katherine Wiltenburg Todrys

Hosted by Ryan Tate
The controversial Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) made headlines around the world in 2016. Supporters called the pipeline key to safely transporting American oil from the Bakken oil fields of the …
Genocide Studies August 26, 2021

The Crime Without a Name

Ethnocide and the Erasure of Culture in America

Barrett Holmes Pitner

Hosted by Jeff Bachman
Can new language reshape our understanding of the past and expand the possibilities of the future? The Crime Without a Name:  Ethnocide and the Erasure of Culture in America (Counterpoint …
Latin American Studies August 2, 2021

La Paz's Colonial Specters

Urbanization, Migration, and Indigenous Political Participation, 1900-52

Luis Sierra

Hosted by Elena McGrath
La Paz's Colonial Specters: Urbanization, Migration, and Indigenous Political Participation, 1900-52 (Bloomsbury, 2021) explores the urban history of one of Latin America’s most indigenous large cities in the first half …
General History July 21, 2021

Everything Ancient Was Once New

Indigenous Persistence from Hawaiʻi to Kahiki

Emalani Case

Hosted by Holger Droessler
In Everything Ancient Was Once New: Indigenous Persistence from Hawaiʻi to Kahiki (U Hawaii Press, 2021), Emalani Case explores Indigenous persistence through the concept of Kahiki, a term that is …
Life Wisdom July 7, 2021

Elder Little Brown Bear: Healing Wisdom from a Métis Elder

Director of Aboriginal Education, Michael Garron Hospital

Elder Little Brown Bear

Hosted by Raj Balkaran
Elder Little Brown Bear (Ernest W Matton) is a spiritual ambassador who blends Traditional teachings with mainstream information to provide holistic healing approaches for Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal community members and …