Welcome to episode 54!  We have two stories celebrating Black history for the month of February!  First off, we have the rough and gruff, gun-toting, cigar smoking, take no shit Mary Fields, often known to history as "Stagecoach Mary!"  She was the United States' first Black woman (and 2nd woman) to run a star route for the postal system.  A star route mail carrier used a stagecoach on treacherous and rocky rural roads out west and had to defend against wild animals and bandits all the while.  Next, KT takes us back 3 more centuries to feudal Japan to learn about Yasuke, the African man who arrived in Japan with a Jesuit missionary and became the close confidant of Oda Nobunaga, the "Great Unifier" of Japan as well as the first non-Asian samurai!    

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Mentioned in the Stories:

Stagecoach Mary's Gravesite 

Statue of Yasuke

Map of Feudal Japan

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The Socials!

Instagram - @HightailingHistory

TikTok- @HightailingHistoryPod

Facebook -Hightailing Through History or @HightailingHistory

Twitter - @HightailingPod

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Source Material:

Stagecoach Mary--

https://books.google.com/books?id=2_GwyvHcT-EC&lpg=PA128&ots=qpm-6p0p0q&dq=%2522mary%2520fields%2522%2520%2522hickman%2520county%2522&pg=PA130#v=onepage&q=%2522mary%2520fields%2522%2520%2522hickman%2520county%2522&f=false  (Pages 112, 128-131)

https://postalmuseum.si.edu/stagecoach-mary-fields

https://www.history.com/news/meet-stagecoach-mary-the-daring-black-pioneer-who-protected-wild-west-stagecoaches

https://www.jstor.org/stable/24766796?mag=how-mary-fields-became-stagecoach-mary&seq=5#metadata_info_tab_contents

Yasuke--

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Yasuke

https://time.com/6039381/yasuke-black-samurai-true-story/

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/who-was-yasuke-japans-first-black-samurai-180981416/

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Welcome to Episode 53!  This is part two of our two part conversation with Dr. Darren R. Reid, Course Director of History at Coventry University in England.  Professor Reid gave us an assignment we were only too happy to do: watch a handful of popular movies that showed Indigenous representation and chat with him about it.

In part two, we talk about The Lost City of Z, Avatar, Dances With Wolves and even discuss some Disney movies such as Pocahontas and Peter Pan

(In part one, we covered Wakanda Forever, the Indiana Jones franchise and Netflix's Ancient Apocalypse)

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Dr. Darren Reid's Social Media and Suggested Reading and Watching:

Dr. Reid's Instagram - @thathistorianinsta

Book: Native American Racism in the Age of Donald Trump: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

Documentary: Keepers of the Forest: A Tribe of the Rainforests of Brazil on YouTube

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The Socials!

Instagram - @HightailingHistory

TikTok- @HightailingHistoryPod

Facebook -Hightailing Through History or @HightailingHistory

Twitter - @HightailingPod

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Welcome to 2023 and Episode 52! We have a two part treat for your ears and brains! We had a most excellent time sitting in the smoke circle with Dr. Darren Reid, Course Director of History at Coventry University in England.  Professor Reid gave us an assignment we were only too happy to do: watch a handful of popular movies that showed Indigenous representation and chat with him about it.  

In part one, we cover Wakanda Forever, Indiana Jones and Netflix's Ancient Apocalypse 

In part two, out on January 20th, we'll talk about The Lost City of Z, Avatar and Dances With Wolves

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Dr. Darren R. Reid's Social Media and Suggested Reading and Watching:

Dr. Reid's Instagram - @thathistorianinsta

Book: Native American Racism in the Age of Donald Trump: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

Documentary: Keepers of the Forest: A Tribe of the Rainforests of Brazil on YouTube

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The Socials!

Instagram - @HightailingHistory

TikTok- @HightailingHistoryPod

Facebook -Hightailing Through History or @HightailingHistory

Twitter - @HightailingPod

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Welcome to episode 49! To round out Native American Heritage Month, we have two more stories on Indigenous history! KT kicks things off with a historical figure that tied into episode 48–Crazy Horse, the Oglala Sioux warrior and leader. Did you know he was born with beautiful curls?! Next up, Laurel fast forwards to 1969 and the 19 month Native occupation of Alcatraz Island as a watershed moment for Indigenous people in North America (also includes a short story on first female chief of the Cherokee Nation, Wilma Mankiller!)

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Mentioned in the Stories:

Alcatraz Log Book

Crazy Horse Statue

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The Socials!

Instagram - @HightailingHistory

TikTok- @HightailingHistoryPod

Facebook -Hightailing Through History or @HightailingHistory

Twitter - @HightailingPod

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Source Materials:

Crazy Horse--

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crazy_Horse

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.history.com/.amp/topics/native-american-history/crazy-horse

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Crazy-Horse

https://www.google.com/search?q=was+crazy+horse+at+little+bighorn&oq=was+crazy+horse+at+&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0i512l2j0i22i30j0i390l5.3997j0j7&client=ms-android-tmus-us-revc&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8

https://www.distractify.com/p/when-will-the-crazy-horse-monument-be-finished

Occupation of Alcatraz--

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/20/us/native-american-occupation-alcatraz.html

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2020-11-19/alcatraz-occupation-indigenous-tribes-autry-museum

https://www.history.com/news/native-american-activists-occupy-alcatraz-island-45-years-ago

https://www.britannica.com/place/Alcatraz-Island

https://womenshistory.si.edu/stories/wilma-mankiller-led-first-woman-principal-chief-cherokee-nation

https://www.vogue.com/article/unthanksgiving-day-alcatraz-50th-anniversary-2019

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Welcome to episode 48! November is Native American Heritage Month and we wanted to highlight some Indigenous stories! First, Laurel starts with the story of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy and how their society inspired suffragists in Women’s Rights Movements of the 19th and early 20th centuries! Next, KT takes us through the life of Lakota Sioux warrior and chief, Sitting Bull. 

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Mentioned in the Stories: 

Whose Land Are You On? 

Haudenosaunee Territory Map 

2021 PBS Documentary "Without a Whisper" 

Picture of Sitting Bull 

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The Socials! Instagram - @HightailingHistory TikTok- @HightailingHistoryPod Facebook -Hightailing Through History or @HightailingHistory Twitter - @HightailingPod *~*~*~*~ Source Materials: Haudenosaunee-- https://americanindian.si.edu/sites/1/files/pdf/education/HaudenosauneeGuide.pdf https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/how-native-american-women-inspired-the-women-s-rights-movement.htm https://www.lwv.org/blog/how-native-american-women-inspired-womens-suffrage-movement https://www.nps.gov/articles/the-internationalist-history-of-the-us-suffrage-movement.htm#_edn4 https://www.feminist.com/resources/artspeech/genwom/iroquoisinfluence.html https://www.pbs.org/filmfestival/films/without-a-whisper Sitting Bull-- https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.history.com/.amp/topics/native-american-history/sitting-bull https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/oakley-sitting-bull/ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing_Rock_Indian_Reservation https://cantetenza.wordpress.com/about/ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Little_Bighorn https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.history.com/.amp/news/10-things-you-may-not-know-about-sitting-bull *~*~*~*~ Intro/outro music: "Loopster" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Happy Halloween! We couldn’t let our favorite month go by without some friends and we invited Brendan Dowd from History Nerds United to hang out! Our stories include musicians who are rumored to have made a deal with the devil; witches, pirates and spooky shipwrecks; and a bizarre cryptid who hangs out in some equally bizarre woods!

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Mentioned in the Story:

Devil's Trill Sonata

Caprice No. 24 (David Garrett)

Paganini's Hands

Waydah Gally Museum

Jersey Pine Barrens 

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The Socials!

Instagram - @HightailingHistory

TikTok- @HightailingHistoryPod

Facebook -Hightailing Through History or @HightailingHistory

Twitter - @HightailingPod

Follow Brendan Dowd at History Nerds United's Podcast, Blog and Instagram!!

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Source Materials:

Paganini--

https://www.classicfm.com/composers/paganini

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Niccolo-Paganini

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/39571/pg39571-images.html

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2639882/

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/014107688808101015

https://www.americanbluesscene.com/2022/08/

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Robert-Johnson

Jersey Devil--

www.onlyinyourstate.com/new-jersey/haunted-pine-barrens-nj/amp/

https://pinelandsalliance.org/learn-about-the-pinelands/pinelands-history-and-culture/the-jersey-devil-and-folklore/

https://njhumanities.org/

https://allthatsinteresting.com/jersey-devil

https://www.atlantic-county.org/history/jersey-devil-pg1.asp

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Intro/outro music: "Loopster" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

A saint for a Halloween episode?!  I know it might seem backwards, but, let me tell you: this is NOT a saint you want to mess with.  Her story is violent with scenes that would be appropriate for a horror movie.  St. Olga is the patron saint for the city of Kyiv but I personally like to think of her as the patron saint of "f*ck around and find out."  In our tale...people do and they did...

KT is out again and is officially down with Covid.  We wish her a speedy recovery!  

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Mentioned in the Story:

St. Olga's Portrait

Korosten's City Coat of Arms 

Deep Into History--Arjun is a story master and will be immersing his listeners into this same story for Halloween if you want to catch his version!

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The Socials!

Instagram - @HightailingHistory

TikTok- @HightailingHistoryPod

Facebook -Hightailing Through History or @HightailingHistory

Twitter - @HightailingPod

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Source Materials:

https://www.historyanswers.co.uk/medieval-renaissance/olga-of-kiev-one-saint-you-do-not-want-to-mess-with/

https://theconversation.com/saint-olga-of-kyiv-is-ukraines-patron-saint-of-both-defiance-and-vengeance-178019

https://biographics.org/olga-of-kiev-the-viking-saint-of-russia/

https://www.history.com/news/vikings-in-russia-kiev-rus-varangians-prince-oleg

https://www.worldhistory.org/Kievan_Rus/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korosten

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It's my sister and cohost KT's birthday on the day this comes out (October 14th)! Unfortunately, she's been down HARD with illness this past week and we were unable to get her half of today's episode recorded.  Instead we have an hour long episode on the Satanic Panic of the 1980s and 90s.  It was a wild time in contemporary history (did it ever really end?) and you may even have your own memories about the moral panic.  Settle in, light up your joints OR make yourself a devilishly  good cocktail or cuppa tea and hear all about the Satanic Panic

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Mentioned in the Story:

Night on Bald Mountain/Chernabog

Chicago Tribune 1989 Article (also listed first in source materials below)

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The Socials!

Instagram - @HightailingHistory

TikTok- @HightailingHistoryPod

Facebook -Hightailing Through History or @HightailingHistory

Twitter - @HightailingPod

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Source Materials:

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1989-02-26-8903080940-story.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/31/us/satanic-panic.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/18/us/when-dungeons-dragons-set-off-a-moral-panic.html

https://www.vox.com/culture/22358153/satanic-panic-ritual-abuse-history-conspiracy-theories-explained

https://www.people.vcu.edu/~dbromley/undergraduate/spiritualCommunity/SatanicCults.html

https://www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-podcasts/472-satanic-panic

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