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Darts & Letters August 12, 2022

Made of Corn

How Genetically Modified Corn Changed Science, Academia and Indigenous Rights in Mexico (Part 2 of 2)

Hosted by Gordon Katic
This is part 2 of a 2-part series from Cited - the predecessor of Darts and Letters. For the final episode of our “Activism & Academia”-themed week of programming, we’re …

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Darts & Letters August 11, 2022

Modifying Maize

How Genetically Modified Corn Changed Science, Academia and Indigenous Rights in Mexico (Part 1 of 2)

Hosted by Gordon Katic
This is part 1 of a 2-part series from Cited - the predecessor of Darts and Letters. When genetically modified corn was found in the highlands of Mexico, Indigenous campesino …
Writ Large August 8, 2022

On "Black Elk Speaks"

A Discussion with Philip Deloria

Philip Deloria

Hosted by Zachary Davis
In many ways, Black Elk and John Neihardt lived very different lives. Black Elk was an Oglala Lakota holy man. Neihartd was a European-American literary critic. Black Elk performed for …
Native American Studies July 28, 2022

Seeing Red

Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America

Michael John Witgen

Hosted by John Cable
Against long odds, the Anishinaabeg resisted removal, retaining much of their land in the Old Northwest—what’s now Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. Their success rested partly on their roles as sellers …
American Studies July 27, 2022

Instruments of Empire

Colonial Elites and U.S. Governance in Early National Louisiana, 1803–1815

Michael K. Beauchamp

Hosted by Deidre Tyler
M. K. Beauchamp's Instruments of Empire: Colonial Elites and U.S. Governance in Early National Louisiana, 1803–1815 (LSU Press, 2021) examines the challenges that resulted from U.S. territorial expansion through the …
Women's History July 26, 2022

Cacicas

The Indigenous Women Leaders of Spanish America, 1492-1825

Margarita R. Ochoa and Sara V. Guengerich

Hosted by Jane Scimeca
The term cacica was a Spanish linguistic invention, the female counterpart to caciques, the Arawak word for male indigenous leaders in Spanish America. But the term’s meaning was adapted and …
Food July 14, 2022

Baking, Bourbon, and Black Drink

Foodways Archaeology in the American Southeast

Tanya M. Peres and Aaron Deter-Wolf

Hosted by Carrie Helms Tippen
Understanding and explaining societal rules surrounding food and foodways have been the foci of anthropological studies since the early days of the discipline. Baking, Bourbon, and Black Drink: Foodways Archaeology …
American South July 8, 2022

Louisiana Creole Peoplehood

Afro-Indigeneity and Community

Rain Prud'homme-Cranford and Darryl Barthé

Hosted by Deidre Tyler
Over the course of more than three centuries, the diverse communities of Louisiana have engaged in creative living practices to forge a vibrant, multifaceted, and fully developed Creole culture. Against …
Native American Studies June 28, 2022

Conversations with LeAnne Howe

Kirstin L. Squint ed.

Hosted by Deidre Tyler
Conversations with LeAnne Howe (UP of Mississippi, 2022) is the first collection of interviews with the groundbreaking Choctaw author, whose genre-bending works take place in the US Southeast, Oklahoma, and beyond …
American West June 13, 2022

Making a Modern U.S. West

The Contested Terrain of a Region and Its Borders, 1898-1940

Sarah Deutsch

Hosted by Stephen Hausmann
In less than half a century, the American West changed dramatically from a region of dynamic borders, politics, and identities to a more fixed zone of borders and demarcations …
Native American Studies June 7, 2022

Cinematic Comanches

The Lone Ranger in the Media Borderlands

Dustin Tahmahkera

Hosted by Joaquín Rivaya-Martínez
For centuries Comanches have captivated imaginations. Yet their story in popular accounts abruptly stops in 1875, when the last free Comanches entered a reservation in southwestern Oklahoma. In Cinematic Comanches …
Native American Studies May 27, 2022

Brotherhood to Nationhood

George Manuel and the Making of the Modern Indian Movement

Peter McFarlane with Doreen Manuel

Hosted by Zachary Smith
Brotherhood to Nationhood: George Manuel and the Making of the Modern Indian Movement (Between the Lines Books, 2020) details the life of George Manuel, a seminal figure in the emergence and development …
Latin American Studies May 18, 2022

Affect, Ecofeminism, and Intersectional Struggles in Latin America

A Tribute to Berta Cáceres

Irune del Rio Gabiola

Hosted by Elize Mazadiego
In Affect, Ecofeminism, and Intersectional Struggles in Latin America: A Tribute to Berta Cáceres (Peter Lang, 2020), Irune del Rio Gabiola examines the power of affect in structuring decolonizing modes of resistance performed …
Environmental Studies May 18, 2022

In Whose Ruins

Power, Possession, and the Landscapes of American Empire

Alicia Puglionesi

Hosted by Laura Stark
The important new book by Alicia Puglionesi, In Whose Ruins: Power, Possession and the Landscapes of American Empire (Scribner, 2022), is a fat sampler of episodes that show how origin …
American West May 12, 2022

Beneath the Backbone of the World

Blackfoot People and the North American Borderlands, 1720-1877

Ryan Hall

Hosted by Stephen Hausmann
No matter what people call them today the northwestern Great Plains have been and continue to be Blackfoot country, argues Colgate University assistant professor Ryan Hall in Beneath the Backbone of …
Anthropology May 11, 2022

Prophets and Ghosts

The Story of Salvage Anthropology

Samuel J. Redman

Hosted by Lukas Rieppel
Prophets and Ghosts: The Story of Salvage Anthropology (Harvard UP, 2021) is a searching account of nineteenth-century salvage anthropology, an effort to preserve the culture of “vanishing” Indigenous peoples through …
Native American Studies May 10, 2022

The Apache Diaspora

Four Centuries of Displacement and Survival

Paul Conrad

Hosted by Joaquín Rivaya-Martínez
In The Apache Diaspora: Four Centuries of Displacement and Survival (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021), Paul Conrad brings to life the stories of displaced Apaches and the kin from whom they were …
General History April 21, 2022

Down the Warpath to the Cedars

Indians' First Battles in the Revolution

Mark R. Anderson

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
In May 1776 more than two hundred Indian warriors descended the St. Lawrence River to attack Continental forces at the Cedars, west of Montreal. In just three days’ fighting, the …
American West April 18, 2022

Born of Lakes and Plains

Mixed-Descent Peoples and the Making of the American West

Anne F. Hyde

Hosted by Andrew Graybill
Often overlooked, there is mixed blood at the heart of America. And at the heart of Native life for centuries there were complex households using intermarriage to link disparate communities …
Latin American Studies April 7, 2022

Colonial Kinship

Guaraní, Spaniards, and Africans in Paraguay

Shawn Michael Austin

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
In Colonial Kinship: Guaraní, Spaniards, and Africans in Paraguay (U New Mexico Press, 2020), historian Shawn Michael Austin traces the history of conquest and colonization in Paraguay during the sixteenth and …