Podcast appearances and mentions of Brenda J Child

Rebecca is joined by Brenda J. Child, a University of Minnesota professor, historian and author of several award-winning books about Native American history. They cover important elements of Native history that people should know about, like Native boarding schools, and Brenda's latest endeavor – a new Center for Indigenous Arts at the University of Minnesota. This podcast series is a part of the SMSC's Understand Native Minnesota campaign that concluded in January 2024. This episode was filmed before the series concluded. EPISODE RESOURCES Understand Native Minnesota: https://www.understandnativemn.org/ Learn more about Brenda's books: https://birchbarkbooks.com/collections/vendors?q=Brenda%20Child Dreaming Our Futures exhibit: https://cla.umn.edu/art/news-events/news/dreaming-our-futures-ojibwe-and-ochethi-sakowin-artists-and-knowledge-keepers Learn more about the work of Dr. Charles Eastman: https://birchbarkbooks.com/collections/vendors?q=Charles%20Eastman Read “From the Deep Woods to Civilization” Dr. Charles Eastman for free here: https://books.google.com/books/about/From_the_Deep_Woods_to_Civilization.html?id=RG0_AAAAMAAJ

Native Lights: Where Indigenous Voices Shine – Weekly Radio ShowNative Lights is a weekly, half-hour radio program hosted by Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe members and siblings, Leah Lemm and Cole Premo. Native Lights is a space for people in Native communities around Mni Sota Mkoce -- a.k.a. Minnesota -- to tell their stories about finding their gifts and sharing them with the community.Native Lights – Historian Brenda J. Child Responds to the Federal Indian Boarding School System ReportOn today's show, we talk with Brenda J. Child Ph.D. (Red Lake Nation) about the U.S. Department of Interior's recently released investigative report on the Federal Indian boarding school system. Brenda J. Child Ph.D. is the Northrop Professor of American Studies and American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota and was recently awarded a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. The Department of Interior's 100+ page report is a first step in the U.S. government accounting for and acknowledging the harm done to Indigenous people over many decades. From 1819 to 1969, the United States funded 408 boarding schools for American Indian, Native Hawaiian, and Alaskan Native students. These schools were a means to culturally assimilate Indigenous people and to dispossess them of lands across what are now 37 states.Brenda J. Child is the author of many award-winning books including Boarding School Seasons: American Indian Families, 1900-1940; Holding Our World Together: Ojibwe Women and the Survival of Community; and My Grandfather's Knocking Sticks: Ojibwe Family Life and Labor on the Reservation, which won the American Indian Book Award and Best Book in Midwestern History. Her bestselling book for children is Bowwow Powwow.Find the report here: https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/department-interior-releases-investigative-report-outlines-next-steps-federal-indianAdditional resources suggested by Brenda J. Child: Museum Exhibit: Away from Home - American Indian Boarding School Stories exhibit at the Heard Museum in Phoenix Arizonahttps://heard.org/boardingschool/Journal article: The Boarding School as Metaphor, written by Brenda J. Child https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/jamerindieduc.57.1.0037Dr. Charles F. Eastman (Santee Dakota) autobiographies include Indian Boyhood, Soul of an Indian, and From the Deep Woods to Civilization.  Eastman was born near Redwood Falls, Minnesota in 1858. Native Lights: Where Indigenous Voices Shine is produced by Minnesota Native News and Ampers, Diverse Radio for Minnesota's Communities with support from the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage fund. Online at https://minnesotanativenews.org/

Native Lights: Where Indigenous Voices Shine – Weekly Radio ShowNative Lights is a weekly, half-hour radio program hosted by Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe members and siblings, Leah Lemm and Cole Premo. Native Lights is a space for people in Native communities around Mni Sota Mkoce -- a.k.a. Minnesota -- to tell their stories about finding their gifts and sharing them with the community. Native Lights – Honoring the Life and Legacy AIM Co-Founder Clyde Bellecourt (1938-2022) – Part 2This is the second part of our special edition show, honoring the life and legacy of NeeGawNwayWeeDun, The Thunder Before the Storm, who was known by his colonial name Clyde Bellecourt.  Clyde Bellecourt was a member of the White Earth Band of Ojibwe and was a long-time civil rights advocate and co-founded the American Indian Movement in 1968. Bellecourt passed away in Minneapolis on January 11th, 2022. He was 85. On today's show, we learn more about Clyde's time in prison as a young man, and how it strongly impacted him uncovered his purpose.  During that time of incarceration, Clyde Bellecourt met key people who helped him connect to Native traditions and spirituality, and together with whom he would co-found AIM.  This time of growth and healing informed every aspect of NeeGawNwayWeeDun's advocacy work, which he carried throughout his life.  Chi miigwech to the folks who have shared their stories in these shows: Dr. Kate Beane Ph.D. (Flandreau Santee Dakota and Muskogee Creek), Dr. Brenda J. Child Ph.D. (Red Lake Nation), Dr. Antony Stately Ph.D. (Ojibwe and Oneida), Robert Pilot (Ho-Chunk Nation), Bob Rice (White Earth Nation), Steve Premo (Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe), and Bob Blake (Red Lake Nation).  Native Lights: Where Indigenous Voices Shine is produced by Minnesota Native News and Ampers, Diverse Radio for Minnesota's Communities with support from the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage fund. Online at https://minnesotanativenews.org/

Native Lights is a weekly, half-hour radio program hosted by Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe members and siblings, Leah Lemm and Cole Premo. Native Lights is a space for people in Native communities around Mni Sota Mkoce -- a.k.a. Minnesota -- to tell their stories about finding their gifts and sharing them with the community.Native Lights – Honoring the Life and Legacy AIM Co-Founder Clyde Bellecourt (1938-2022) – Part 1Today, the first of two special editions of our show, honoring the life and legacy of NeeGawNwayWeeDun, The Thunder Before the Storm, who was known by his colonial name Clyde Bellecourt. Bellecourt passed away in his Minneapolis home on January 11th, 2022. He was 85.Clyde Bellecourt was a member of the White Earth Band of Ojibwe and was a long-time civil rights advocate and co-founded the American Indian Movement in 1968. Throughout his many decades of activism, Bellecourt and AIM leaders sought solutions to police brutality, treaty rights, housing discrimination, and the loss of Indian children. He fought to create culturally specific education, innovative job programs, against sports mascots, and for human rights for Indigenous people here and around the world. His work was revolutionary and sometimes controversial.  Today we honor NeeGawNwayWeeDun, by hearing from community members who knew him well, and who share stories and shed light on the impact and legacy of Clyde Bellecourt.Miigwech to the folks who have shared their stories in these shows: Dr. Kate Beane (Flandreau Santee Dakota and Muskogee Creek), Dr. Brenda J. Child Ph.D. (Red Lake Nation), Dr. Antony Stately Ph.D. (Ojibwe and Oneida), Robert Pilot (Ho-Chunk Nation), Bob Rice (White Earth Nation), Steve Premo (Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe), and Bob Blake (Red Lake Nation).  Native Lights: Where Indigenous Voices Shine is produced by Minnesota Native News and Ampers, Diverse Radio for Minnesota's Communities with support from the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage fund. Online at https://minnesotanativenews.org/

Native Lights is a weekly, half-hour radio program hosted by Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe members and siblings, Leah Lemm and Cole Premo. Native Lights is a space for people in Native communities around Mni Sota Mkoce -- a.k.a. Minnesota -- to tell their stories about finding their gifts and sharing them with the community.On today’s show, Leah and Cole talk with well-known Anishinaabe artist and graphic designer, Steve Premo (Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe), who is also their uncle!  Steve Premo is married to Ojibwe historian and author Brenda Child (Red Lake Nation) who has also been a guest on Native Lights.Steve Premo shares how he first discovered his passion for drawing, as a child while bed-bound and recovering from an injury, he first found his flair for drawing and painting. Steve’s drawing skills brought attention from his classmates, then his teachers, and then from the public eager to purchase his artwork.   Steve tells Leah and Cole about some of his latest projects, including illustrating stories for Rosetta Stone Ojibwe language videos.  And he offers advice for young and budding artists to just keep doing what they love, and eventually, the money and recognition will come.Chi Miigwech Uncle Steve Premo for sharing your artistic gifts and for your encouragement for others to do the same!You can view more about Steve Premo’s art here: http://edgecenterarts.blogspot.com/2014/05/introspection-native-american-art-in.htmlAnd here: https://millelacsband.com/news/steve-premo-becomes-a-full-time-artistListen to our conversation with Dr. Brenda J. Child Ph.D., the Northrop Professor of American Studies and American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota here: https://minnesotanativenews.org/biidaapi-with-brenda-child/Native Lights: Where Indigenous Voices Shine is produced by Minnesota Native News and Ampers, Diverse Radio for Minnesota’s Communities with support from the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage fund. Online at MinnesotaNativeNews.org

It’s our 5th anniversary episode and this time we’re discussing Bad Book Reading Habits! Sticky notes, bookmarks, tagging and tracking, borrowing more library books than we can read, books on display in video calls, reading books out of order, throwing books in the garbage, and more! Plus: Which host is a book goblin? (The answer may surprise you.) You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards Media We Mentioned If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino, translated by William Weaver The copy of the book mentioned that had marginalia Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed Acquired Traits by Raissa Berg The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern Goodnight Tweetheart by Teresa Medeiros ttyl by Lauren Myracle Links, Articles, and Things Marginalia (Wikipedia) WereBear (Wikipedia) Convergence (Wikipedia) Goblin (Dungeons & Dragons) (Wikipedia) Pathfinder Roleplaying Game (Wikipedia) Sequel Rights: A Review of Locus Reviews Twitterature (Wikipedia) 30 books by Indigenous authors published in the past 5 years Since 2020, we’ve been sharing lists of books by authors of colour for every new genre we read - and with our non-genre episodes, sharing lists for the genres we covered in our early episodes. The early episode we’re creating a booklist for this month is Episode 009: Aboriginal / Indigenous / First Nations. Our booklist for this episode features works by Indigenous authors that have been published since that episode came out in 2016. Fiction Bawaajigan: Stories of Power edited by Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler Indians on Vacation by Thomas King There There by Tommy Orange Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead Non-Fiction A Mind Spread Out on the Ground by Alicia Elliott 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act: Helping Canadians Make Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples a Reality by Bob Joseph In My Own Moccasins: A Memoir of Resilience by Helen Knott Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Métis & Inuit Issues in Canada by Chelsea Vowel From Where I Stand: Rebuilding Indigenous Nations for A Stronger Canada by Jody Wilson-Raybould Young Adult The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline Fire Song by Adam Garnet Jones Son of a Trickster by Eden Robinson Strangers by David Alexander Robertson Hearts Unbroken by Cynthia Leitich Smith Picture Books Bowwow Powwow : Bagosenjige-niimi'idim by Brenda J. Child, Jonathan Thunder, and Gordon Jourdain You Hold Me Up by Monique Gray Smith and Danielle Daniel Awâsis and the World-Famous Bannock by Dallas Hunt and Amanda Strong We Are Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom and Michaela Goade Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story by Kevin Noble Maillard and Juana Martinez-Neal Poetry NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field by Billy-Ray Belcourt Holy Wild by Gwen Benaway From Turtle Island to Gaza by David Groulx it was never going to be okay by jaye simpson Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq Comics This Place: 150 Years Retold Dakwäkãda Warriors by Cole Pauls Surviving the City by Tasha Spillett and Natasha Donovan Pemmican Wars by Katherena Vermette and Scott B. Henderson Carpe Fin: A Haida Manga by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, follow us on Twitter or Instagram, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, April 6th we’ll be talking about the genre of Psychological Horror! (With a special guest co-host!) Then on Tuesday, April 20th we’ll be giving an update on non-podcast media we’ve been reading, watching, and otherwise experiencing.

  Greetings from Native Lights! Today we’re talking with Brenda Child who also happens to be - Auntie Brenda. She's married to our uncle - Steve Premo. We talk with Brenda Child (Red Lake Nation) about the origin story of the Jingle Dress and how it relates to the 1918 Flu epidemic, and what the past can teach us about our current pandemic. Dr. Brenda J. Child Ph.D. is the Northrop Professor of American Studies and American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota, and she helped curate the Jingle Dress exhibit at the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe Museum. Child is the author of many books on American Indian History, and the wonderful children’s book: Bowwow Powwow.  

We talk about the history of how alcatraz went from just and island, to a military prison, to a federal prison, and then a cultural center for native americans that established an occupation on the island.  Support: https://www.patreon.com/americathebizarre Sources: “Alcatraz Origins” by the Federal Bureau of Prisons “The Rock” Volume I by the Improvement Fund, Pacific Branch United States Disciplinary Barracks “Alcatraz-World War II in the San Francisco Bay Area: A National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary” by National Park Services “Boarding School Seasons” by Brenda J. Child “Full History” and “Alcatraz Escape Attempts” by the Alcatraz History website “Alcatraz” by the History.com website “Alcatraz! Alcatraz! The Indian Occupation of 1969-1971” by Adam Fortunate Eagle “The Occupation of Alcatraz” by Troy Johnson

So now that you know the untold story of Thanksgiving how in the world do you teach your children about it!? Don’t worry one bit friend, I have 4 concrete things you can do to make sure you are being honest and inclusive this fall! 1-Tell the real story of Thanksgiving  I shared everything I know in last week’s episode “The Untold Story of Thanksgiving,” listen here.  2-Share resources with your child’s teacher  Download a free resource guide to send to the sweet soul who teaches your little one each day here.  3-Celebrate Native American Heritage Month November is Native American Heritage Month and there are so many great ways to celebrate: Emphasize gratitude Learn about the people who are Indigenous to where you live  Read books written by Native Authors  Make sure to check out the blog American Indian’s in Children’s Literature to ensure the books you choose are appropriate and inclusive  Some books I recommend: Tradition & Culture  Jingle Dancer by Cynthis Leitich Smith Bowwow Powwow by Brenda J. Child   A story of gratitude  Thanks to the Animals by Allen J Sockabasin   Hardship faced by the Native community  When I was Eight by Christy Jordan-Fenton & Margaret Pokiak-Fenton  When we were Alone by David Robertson    4- Research harvest festivals around the world  Download our free e-book to learn about different harvest festivals from across the globe with your children    Song Credit: “Away” by Geographer and “Beach Disco” by Dougie Wood