This is Problematic!

Join Hannah and Easton for a discussion with Dr Liza Black about Native American Representation and Misrepresentations throughout American Culture and Media. This discussion spans the range of sports to film and includes recommendations for how to diversify your media consumption.

Dr. Liza Black:

Her IU bio: https://history.indiana.edu/faculty_staff/faculty/black_liza.html

Liza's website: https://www.lizablack.com

Follow @_Liza_Black on Twitter

Order a copy of Liza's first book "Picturing Indians: Native Americans in Film, 1941-1960" here: https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/9780803296800/

Liza's chapter about Savanna Greywind and the Abduction of Haisley Jo Greywind can be found in "The Routledge Companion to Gender and the American West" Edited by Susan Bernardin here: https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Companion-to-Gender-and-the-American-West/Bernardin/p/book/9780815387015

Recommended social media follows (remember to follow your own interests!) but here are a few called out in the pod:

• @connie_walker on Twitter
• Her podcast-Stolen: Surviving St. Michael's

https://open.spotify.com/show/7D4inq4DY144KIZN99Od6t?si=e6345b3fde8c44e4

• Up and Vanished podcast-Season 3 Episode 5 "Blackfeet Nation"
• https://open.spotify.com/episode/2mfxST0pLsyhkNPo7U8twb?si=Zc8bhB7ZTWKj7eKb2m3A7w

Sources:

"Ending the Era of Harmful "Indian" Mascots." The National Congress of American Indians, (2022)

Accessed 5/17/2022. https://www.ncai.org/proudtobe

"History of Progress." ChangeTheMascot.org. (2020),

Accessed 5/17/2022. https://www.changethemascot.org/history-of-progress/

S. E., Wilmer. Native American Performance and Representation. Tucson, Az: The University of Arizona Press, 2009.

Historian Dr Charlene Fletcher comes to the podcast, with expertise in US History and a decade of experience working in the Criminal Justice system, to explore a case from Indiana's history with Hannah and Easton. The murder of Kent Brown in 1893 rocked the small town of Winchester, Indiana. His story since then has gone largely untold, join us as we finally tell it and explore what it says about the American Criminal Justice system past and present.

Content warning: Themes of sex and violence may be disturbing and unsuitable for young audiences. Listener discretion advised.

Dr Charlene Fletcher:

Her website: https://www.charlenejfletcher.com

You can read a chapter of her work here: https://www.amazon.com/Slavery-Freedom-Bluegrass-State-Revisiting-ebook/

Keep an eye out for her upcoming book: Confined Femininity: Race, Gender, and Incarceration in Kentucky, 1865-1920 from University of North Carolina Press

Our Sources:

Brown, Kent, 1870 United States Census, Ancestry.com.

Brown, Kent, Indiana, U.S., Marriages, 1810-2001, 5 September 1867.

Hiatt, Eleanora, 1900 United States Census, Ancestry.com.

"Indiana Parole Board," Indiana Department of Corrections, (2022) https://www.in.gov/idoc/parole-services/parole-board/

Margaret Colgate Love, "Indiana Restoration of Rights & Record Relief," COLLATERAL CONSEQUENCES RESOURCE CENTER, (2020).

https://ccresourcecenter.org/state-restoration-profiles/indiana-restoration-of-rights-pardon-expungement-sealing/

"Mollie Brown," Indianapolis News (Indianapolis, IN), 7th December 1886.

"Murder at Winchester," Indianapolis News (Indianapolis, IN), 1st August, 1893, p. 2. http://genealogytrails.com/ind/randolph/stories_stormes_price_murdercase.html

"New Barber," Randolph Journal (Winchester, IN), Vol. 5, No. 17, 25 October 1866, p. 3.

Segraves, Malissa, Indiana, U.S., Marriages, 1810-2001, Ancestry.com.

Storms, Malissa, Indiana, U.S.,Death Certificates, 1899-2011, Ancestry.com.

Price, Samuel, 1900 United States Census, Ancestry.com.

Price, Samuel H., Indiana, U.S., Marriages, 1810-2001, Ancestry.com.

Price, Elnora, Indiana, U.S., Death Certificates 1899-2011, Ancestry.com.

"What is a "pardon" and does it get rid of my criminal record?", The Legal Aid Society of Cleveland, (2022).

https://lasclev.org/pardon/

Join Hannah and Easton as they introduce you to This is Problematic, a Conner Prairie podcast! Discussion of the upcoming first season of the podcast and what you have to look forward to.

Today Hannah and Easton are sitting down on This is Problematic, a Conner Prairie podcast, with the institution's President and CEO, Norman Burns, to discuss the topic of First Person Interpretation. As a museum that has employed this strategy for telling history this is an opportunity to get a glimpse into the past, present and future of this type of storytelling.

Show Notes:

Norman Burns:

@NormanOBurns on Twitter

His Bio on Conner Prairie's website-https://www.connerprairie.org/about/board-of-directors/

Conner Prairie-https://www.connerprairie.org

Our sources:

Broomall, James J. "The Interpretation is a-changin': Memory, Museums and Public History in Central Virginia," in Journal of the Civil War Era. Vol. 3, No. 1 (March 2013), pp. 114-124.

Coslett, Daniel E. and Manish Chalana. "National Parks for New Audiences: Diversifying Interpretation for Enhanced Contemporary Relevance," in The Public Historian, Vol. 38, No. 4 (November 2016), pp. 101-128.

Gallas, Kristin L. and James DeWolf Perry. "Developing Comprehensive and Conscientious Interpretation of Slavery at Historic Sites and Museums" in History News. Vol. 69, No. 2 (Spring 2014) pp. 1-8.

Halifax, Shawn. "McLeod Plantation Historic Site: Sowing Truth and Change" in The Public Historian. Vol. 40, No. 3 (August 2018), pp. 252-277.

Jones, Dale. "Theater 101 for Historical Interpretation," in History News. Vol. 59. No. 3 (Summer 2004), pp. 1-8.

Moore, Nicole A. "Recollections on Interpreting Slave Life and Falling into Your Purpose," in Radical Roots: Public History and a Tradition of Social Justice Activism. 2021, pp. 483-500.

Peers, Laura. '"Playing Ourselves": First Nations and Native American Interpreters at Living History Sites," in The Public Historian, Vol. 21, No. 4 (Autumn 1999), pp. 39-59.

Sheppard, Beverly. "Interpretation in the Outdoor Living History Museum," in History News. Vol. 64, No. 1 (Winter 2009), pp. 15-18.

Rao, Seema. "Inclusive Interpretation Tips," in History News, Vol. 73, No. 2 (Spring 2018), pp. 1-8.

Reid, Debra. "A Story to Pass On: Interpreting Women in Historic Sites and Open-Air Museums," in History News. Vol. 50, No. 2 (March/ April 1995), pp. 12-15.

Whittlesey, Lee H. "The First National Park Interpreter: G.L. Henderson in Yellowstone, 1882-1902," in Montana: The Magazine of Western History. Vol. 46, No. 1 (Spring, 1996), pp. 26-41.