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About Annabel LaBrecque

Annabel LaBrecque is a PhD student in the Department of History at UC Berkeley. You can find her on Twitter @labrcq.

NBN Episodes hosted by Annabel:

Native American Studies March 9, 2022

We Are Not Animals

Indigenous Politics of Survival, Rebellion, and Reconstitution in Nineteenth-Century California

Martin Rizzo-Martinez

Hosted by Annabel LaBrecque
Josefa Velasquez lived a long and full life. When Josefa wasn't co-running a tamale factory and cantina just outside of Wastonville, she was hosting friends and family at her saloon …
Native American Studies September 28, 2021

Oaxaca Resurgent

Indigeneity, Development, and Inequality in Twentieth-Century Mexico

A. S. Dillingham

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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 …
Native American Studies March 22, 2021

La Raza Cosmética

Beauty, Identity, and Settler Colonialism in Postrevolutionary Mexico

Natasha Varner

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A close friend and muse of many of postrevolutionary Mexico's greatest artists, Luz Jiménez's likeness appears across Mexico City in the form of painting, photography, and sculpture. Jiménez's ubiquity has …
Native American Studies February 3, 2021

Teaching Native Pride

Upward Bound and the Legacy of Isabel Bond

Tony Tekaroniake Evans

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In 1877, Eloosykasit was on his way Tolo Lake, a gathering place frequented by the Nez Perce, when he heard news of the Wallowa band's flight from the U.S. Army …
Native American Studies November 24, 2020

We Do Not Want the Gates Closed Between Us

Native Networks and the Spread of the Ghost Dance

Justin Gage

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Writing to U.S. President Grover Cleveland in 1888, Oglala Lakota leaders Little Wound, Young Man Afraid of His Horses, and Red Cloud insisted upon a simple yet significant demand to …
Native American Studies November 20, 2020

Picturing Indians

Native Americans in Film, 1941-1960

Liza Black

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Behind the braided wigs, buckskins, and excess bronzer that typified the mid-century "filmic Indian" lies a far richer, deeper history of Indigenous labor, survival, and agency. This history takes center …
Native American Studies April 8, 2020

Unworthy Republic

The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory

Claudio Saunt

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The Trail of Tears, during which the United States violently expelled thousands of Indigenous peoples from their ancestral homelands in the southeast, was anything but inevitable. Nor was it not …
Native American Studies March 4, 2020

Trail of Footprints

A History of Indigenous Maps from Viceregal Mexico

Alex Hidalgo

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There is far more to a map than meets the eye. Such is the case in historian Alex Hidalgo’s Trail of Footprints: A History of Indigenous Maps from Viceregal Mexico …
Native American Studies February 10, 2020

The Three-Cornered War

The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West

Megan Kate Nelson

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What did the American Civil War look like from Diné Bikéyah and Apacheria? This is just one of the many questions that drives historian Megan Kate Nelson’s The Three-Cornered War …
Native American Studies January 17, 2020

The Five Hundred Year Rebellion

Indigenous Movements and the Decolonization of History in Bolivia

Benjamin Dangl

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Moments before his death at the hands of Spanish colonial officials on November 15, 1781, Aymaran leader Túpac Katari assured his apostles as well as his adversaries that he would …
Native American Studies November 25, 2019

Reproduction on the Reservation

Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Colonialism in the Long Twentieth Century

Brianna Theobald

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In Reproduction on the Reservation: Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Colonialism in the Long Twentieth Century (University of North Carolina Press, 2019), historian Brianna Theobald delivers a long-overdue, comprehensive history of Native …
Native American Studies November 22, 2019

Lakota America

A New History of Indigenous Power

Pekka Hämäläinen

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The names of Red Cloud, Sitting Bull, and Crazy Horse are often readily recognized among many Americans. Yet the longer, dynamic history of the Lakota - a history from which …
Native American Studies October 28, 2019

This Land Is Their Land

The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving

David J. Silverman

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What really happened at “the first Thanksgiving”? In This Land is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving (Bloomsbury, 2019), historian David J. Silverman …