In this episode, we'll hear about the Shawnee and Miami practice of intentionally burning land. But when the settlers came to the Ohio Country, they did not embrace that practice. Can it come back?

In this episode, we talk with three American Indian historical interpreters about the Shawnee lifeway in the Ohio River Valley, walking through each season.

From Blue Jacket's adoption to where Tecumseh was born, there's a lot of false mythology about Shawnee history in what we now call southwest Ohio. This episode explores the region’s narrative through a more accurate, inclusive lens.

In this episode, we meet a visionary leader from the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma working to reconnect her community with their homelands.

In our upcoming series, we will provide a perspective on the history of the region we now call Ohio that very few of us learned in school. We'll put the experiences of Miami, Shawnee, Wyandotte, and other American Indian people at the center of a refreshed version of the state’s complicated past and undecided future.

The Ohio Country is a 12-episode podcast from the public media station WYSO about American Indian people reconnecting with their homelands in the Ohio River Valley.