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Unsung History Podcast
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 29 มิ.ย. 2021
A podcast about people and events in American history you may not know much about. Yet.
Land Displacement & the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians | Unsung History
Thousands of years ago, a band of Cahuilla Indians migrated south into the Coachella Valley, calling the area Séc-he, meaning boiling water. The Mexicans translated this as agua caliente (hot water), which is the name still used today. As the United States extended its territory into California, the Agua Caliente were forced onto a reservation, and then, as the Southern Pacific Railroad was granted land in the region, the reservation was carved up into a checkerboard pattern. It took decades of legal fights and government intervention, but today Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians continues its work to retain its cultural heritage and stewards more than 34,000 acres of ancestral land. Joining me in this episode is Dr. Michael Albertus (www.michaelalbertus.com/), Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, and author of Land Power: Who Has It, Who Doesn't, and How That Determines the Fate of Societies (bookshop.org/a/34046/9781541604810).
Our theme song is Frogs Legs Rag (incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html), composed by James Scott and performed by Kevin MacLeod, licensed under Creative Commons. The mid-episode music is “Dramatic Nostalgic Sad Piano and Cello (pixabay.com/music/nostalgia-dramatic-nostalgic-sad-piano-and-cello-132706/)” by Yevhen Onoychenko (pixabay.com/users/onoychenkomusic-24430395/?) from Pixabay (pixabay.com//?); it is free for use under the Pixabay Content License (pixabay.com/service/license-summary/). The episode image is the Agua Caliente Reservation; this media is available in the holdings of the National Archives and Records Administration, cataloged under the National Archives Identifier (NAID) 298622 (catalog.archives.gov/id/298622).
Additional Sources
Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians (www.aguacaliente.org/).
“Dawes Act (www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/dawes-act),” National Archives.
“S.555 - Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (www.congress.gov/bill/100th-congress/senate-bill/555),” 100th Congress (1987-1988).
“Cahuilla (en.wal.unesco.org/languages/cahuilla),” UNESCO World Atlas of Languages.
“Keeping Cahuilla Alive (www.aguacaliente.org/documents/OurStory-19.pdf),” by Joan Page McKenna, me yah whae, Spring/Summer 2019.
Agua Caliente Cultural Museum (www.accmuseum.org/)
“Agua Caliente Cultural Plaza, Palm Springs, Calif. (time.com/6992393/agua-caliente-cultural-plaza/),” by Kate Nelson, Time Magazine, July 25, 2024.
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Our theme song is Frogs Legs Rag (incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html), composed by James Scott and performed by Kevin MacLeod, licensed under Creative Commons. The mid-episode music is “Dramatic Nostalgic Sad Piano and Cello (pixabay.com/music/nostalgia-dramatic-nostalgic-sad-piano-and-cello-132706/)” by Yevhen Onoychenko (pixabay.com/users/onoychenkomusic-24430395/?) from Pixabay (pixabay.com//?); it is free for use under the Pixabay Content License (pixabay.com/service/license-summary/). The episode image is the Agua Caliente Reservation; this media is available in the holdings of the National Archives and Records Administration, cataloged under the National Archives Identifier (NAID) 298622 (catalog.archives.gov/id/298622).
Additional Sources
Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians (www.aguacaliente.org/).
“Dawes Act (www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/dawes-act),” National Archives.
“S.555 - Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (www.congress.gov/bill/100th-congress/senate-bill/555),” 100th Congress (1987-1988).
“Cahuilla (en.wal.unesco.org/languages/cahuilla),” UNESCO World Atlas of Languages.
“Keeping Cahuilla Alive (www.aguacaliente.org/documents/OurStory-19.pdf),” by Joan Page McKenna, me yah whae, Spring/Summer 2019.
Agua Caliente Cultural Museum (www.accmuseum.org/)
“Agua Caliente Cultural Plaza, Palm Springs, Calif. (time.com/6992393/agua-caliente-cultural-plaza/),” by Kate Nelson, Time Magazine, July 25, 2024.
Advertising Inquiries: redcircle.com/brands (redcircle.com/brands)
Episode link: play.headliner.app/episode/25398062?
(video made with www.headliner.app)
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The History of Interracial Marriage in Mississippi | Unsung History
มุมมอง 8621 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา
In 1865, when Black people in Mississippi first gained the legal right to marriage, so-called Black Codes outlawed interracial marriage, punishable by life in prison. Five years later, Republicans in the Mississippi state legislature repealed the Black Codes and legalized interracial marriage, but the law was reversed again ten years later when Democrats took control. In 1890, a new state Const...
The Panama Canal | Unsung History
มุมมอง 23414 วันที่ผ่านมา
The completion of the Panama Canal in 1914 positioned the United States as a global power, but the U.S. didn’t complete the feat single-handedly. It required land from Panama, equipment and information from the failed earlier effort by the French, and, importantly, tens of thousands of laborers from around the Caribbean. Decades later the Panamanians finally gained control of the canal zone and...
The Women of the Rendezvous Plantation on Barbados in the 17th Century | Unsung History
มุมมอง 11021 วันที่ผ่านมา
In 1686, Susannah Mingo, Elizabeth Atkins, Dorothy Spendlove, and their children, all of whom were half-siblings, along with some of their children' s other half-siblings and their children's father, boarded a ship headed from Barbados to England, where they would live out their lives. It wasn’t unusual for a plantation owner like John Peers to impregnate both his enslaved Black laborers and hi...
Henry Christophe: The King of Haiti | Unsung History
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Henry Christophe, one of the heroes of the Haitian Revolution, was, from 1811 to his death in 1820, King Henry I of the Kingdom of Haiti, the first, last, and only King that Haiti ever had. This week we look at Christophe’s meteoric rise from being born enslaved on an island hundreds of miles from Haiti to fighting in the American Revolution to serving as a general in the Haitian Revolution to ...
The Surprisingly Salacious History of the Modern Restaurant | Unsung History
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If you were to head to Paris in the mid-eighteenth Century and ask for a restaurant, you might be handed a bowl of meat bouillon, prepared in such a way as to improve vigor and perhaps even sperm production. Restaurant referred first to the broth itself and then to the eateries in which men, and less frequently women, could eat said broth. As restaurant came to mean the luxurious establishment ...
Frances Perkins | Unsung History
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On March 4, 1933, Frances Perkins was sworn in as the 4th Secretary of Labor. It was the first time in United States history that a woman served in the Cabinet, only 13 years after the ratification of the 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote. Perkins came into office with a long list of to-do items, and she succeeded in accomplishing nearly all of them in her long tenure, as a central ar...
Florence Price & the Black Chicago Renaissance | Unsung History
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On June 15, 1933, the all-white, all-male Chicago Symphony Orchestra performed Florence Price’s award-winning Symphony Number 1 in E minor, the first institution of its caliber to play the work of a Black woman composer. It was a monumental achievement, but not one that Price achieved alone. She was supported by a sisterhood of Black women who created an environment in Chicago in which composer...
The Women Physicists who Fled Nazi Germany | Unsung History
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As the Nazis rose to power in Germany, life became increasingly hostile for women scientists, especially women of Jewish descent, but also those who expressed anti-Nazi sentiments. The sexism in academic that had held them back in their careers also made escape from Germany difficult, as they didn’t look as strong on paper as their male counterparts. But four women physicists - Hertha Sponer, H...
The Women who Entered the Federal Workforce during the Civil War Era | Unsung History
มุมมอง 522 หลายเดือนก่อน
As the federal workforce grew during the Civil War, department heads began employing women, without any explicit authorization from Congress that they could do so. When Congress finally acknowledged the employment of women in federal departments in 1864, it set their salary at $600 a year, half of what the lowest-paid men clerks were making. Surprisingly, though, a few years later Congress deba...
The Northern Manufacturers of Southern Plantation Goods | Unsung History
มุมมอง 552 หลายเดือนก่อน
Plantation owners in the Southern United States regularly furnished their enslaved workers with goods - clothing, shoes, axes, and shovels, that had been manufactured in the North. Many Northern manufacturers specifically targeted the Southern plantation market, enticed by the prospect of selling cheap goods on a regular schedule. While in some cases the Northern manufacturers supported surpris...
Lily Dale | Unsung History
มุมมอง 592 หลายเดือนก่อน
In 1879, a group of Spiritualists purchased 20 acres of land, halfway between Buffalo, New York, and Erie, Pennsylvania. The gated community they created, now a hamlet of Pomfret, New York, became known as Lily Dale. Each summer, people came to Lily Dale (and still come) to speak with the dead through Lily Dale’s many licensed mediums. In its early years, modern Spiritualism, which began with t...
Isabel Kelly | Unsung History
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Isabel Truesdell Kelly earned her PhD in Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1932, with a dissertation on the “Fundamentals of Great Basin Culture,” having researched the Northern Paiute and Coast Miwok Indigenous cultures of Northern California. After graduating she led excavations in Mexico and then began a career as an anthropologist with the US State Department, whi...
The History of the Electoral College | Unsung History
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At the end of August 1787, after three long months of debate and deliberation, the Constitutional Convention had neared the end of its work. They were poised at that time to write into the Constitution that the President of the United States would be elected by the legislature, but at the last minute they referred the matter to the Committee on Unfinished Parts to resolve. It was that committee...
Baseball & the Chinese Educational Mission of the 1870s | Unsung History
มุมมอง 323 หลายเดือนก่อน
In the 1870s, 120 Chinese boys came to New England as part of the Chinese Educational Mission. The boys studied at prep schools and colleges, and while they continued their lessons in Chinese language and culture, they also learned about the culture of their adopted homeland, including the local sports, like baseball. By the mid-1870s, some of the Chinese students had formed a semi-pro baseball...
Ryan White & the CARE Act of 1990 | Unsung History
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Ryan White & the CARE Act of 1990 | Unsung History
The Sanders Family of Philadelphia | Unsung History
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The Sanders Family of Philadelphia | Unsung History
Education & Reconstruction in the Washington DC Region | Unsung History
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Education & Reconstruction in the Washington DC Region | Unsung History
A History of Postpartum Depression in the United States | Unsung History
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A History of Postpartum Depression in the United States | Unsung History
Segregation Scholarships | Unsung History
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Segregation Scholarships | Unsung History
Doug Williams, Vince Evans & the History of Black Quarterbacks in the NFL | Unsung History
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Doug Williams, Vince Evans & the History of Black Quarterbacks in the NFL | Unsung History
Jewish Patriots in the American Revolution | Unsung History
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Jewish Patriots in the American Revolution | Unsung History
Hair and the American Presidency | Unsung History
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Hair and the American Presidency | Unsung History
The 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago | Unsung History
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The 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago | Unsung History
The History of Synchronized Swimming | Unsung History
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The History of Synchronized Swimming | Unsung History
The FTA & Antiwar Protests in 1971 | Unsung History
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The FTA & Antiwar Protests in 1971 | Unsung History
The Incorruptibles & Organized Jewish Crime in New York City in the Early 20th Century | Unsung...
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The Incorruptibles & Organized Jewish Crime in New York City in the Early 20th Century | Unsung...