America 250 & The Ladies That Dug Musket Balls Out of Their Legs With Sewing Needles
This is really the only podcast episode about America 250 you need to listen to this year.
We're talking all about America, this totally weird wonderful place we're living in (that, much like a family, is kinda effed up but we are nevertheless tied to in wonder, frustration, appreciation, and codependency) , and the ladies of the Revolution that pretty much made it all happen. Quick reminder that women gave birth to 100% of the US population - and you'd think thank you ladies, that is MORE than enough, but no - wait until you hear about just how much they did.
This is really the only podcast episode about America 250 you need to listen to this year.
We're talking all about America, this totally weird wonderful place we're living in (that, much like a family, is kinda effed up but we are nevertheless tied to in wonder, frustration, appreciation, and codependency) , and the ladies of the Revolution that pretty much made it all happen. Quick reminder that women gave birth to 100% of the US population - and you'd think thank you ladies, that is MORE than enough, but no - wait until you hear about just how much they did.
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Quick outline of this episode (lots of great links & info about the topics below the list):
• rejecting “real America” as a way to control and exclude
• remembering Little Bighorn and following Native American news sources
• putting the Constitution in context with 1776 population and slavery numbers
• Mary Katherine Goddard printing the Declaration with the signers’ names
• Mercy Otis Warren’s warnings about centralized power, courts, and missing rights
• Penelope Barker and the Edenton Tea Party boycott as women’s political power
• Phyllis Wheatley calling out liberty’s hypocrisy through poetry
• Deborah Sampson, battlefield survival, and women in uniform
• Oneida and Black patriot stories that complicate the founding myth
• reclaiming the American Dream as freedom to build your own life
The Battle of the Little Bighorn,
Narrated by an Indian Who Fought in It https://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/twomoonslittlebighorn.html
Indigenous & Native American News Sources
ITC News
https://ictnews.org/
Indji Public Media
https://indijpublicmedia.org/
Native America Calling
https://www.nativeamericacalling.com/
Turtle Talk
https://turtletalk.blog/
High Country News
https://www.hcn.org/
Last Real Indians Native News Desk
https://lastrealindians.com/
Minnesota Public Radio Native News: https://www.mprnews.org/native-news
On the US population density - groovy visualization maps: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/maps-extremes-us-population-density/
More than 45million Americans were born elsewhere - debunking immigration lies: https://www.vera.org/news/debunking-the-lies-politicians-say-about-immigrants. Newsweek's cool article about 250 years of waves of immigration: https://www.newsweek.com/america-immigration-waves-250-years-of-arrivals-12113152
Founding a New Nation at the Expense of Enslaved People https://njsbf.org/2024/08/17/founding-a-new-nation-at-the-expense-of-enslaved-people/
Black Patriots of the American Revolution: https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/10-facts-black-patriots-american-revolution
Baddies of the 1770s - Revolutionary Women:
Mary Katharine Goddard
https://www.nps.gov/articles/independence-goddard.htm
Mercy Otis Warren https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/mercy-otis-warren and her book History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution https://archive.org/details/historyofrisepro03warrrich
Edenton Tea Party https://northcarolinahistory.org/encyclopedia/edenton-tea-party/
Deborah Sampson https://www.mass.gov/info-details/deborah-sampson-american-revolutionary-war-hero
Tyonajanegen https://www.amrevmuseum.org/virtualexhibits/meet-the-figures-oneida-nation-theater/pages/two-kettles-together-2 From the Daughters of the American Revolution: https://honoringourpatriots.dar.org/patriots/sarah-martin-tyonajanegen-two-kettles-together/
Phillis Wheatley https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/phillis-wheatley and https://www.bpl.org/blogs/post/tracing-the-life-of-phillis-wheatley-peters/
Mammy Kate https://vanishinggeorgia.com/2024/05/14/mammy-kate-and-daddy-jack-forgotten-black-patriots/
Martin Women of 96 https://www.nps.gov/people/the-martin-women.htm
Here's a list of the music and sound effects we used - thank you artists for making cool stuff and sharing it:
Patriotic
Music by Florews from Pixabay.
Positive Americana
Music by Dvir Silverstone from Pixabay
American Landscape
Music by Dvir Silverstone from Pixabay
Dark Folk Americana
Music by Alana Jordan from Pixabay
Sweet Love Americana
Music by Dvir Silverstone from Pixabay
Up With The Sun. (Lovely violin)
Music by primalhousemusic from Pixabay
Star Spangled Banner PIANO
Music by Anastasia Chubarova from Pixabay
Rock Guitar Star Spangled Banner
Music by BLACKBOX from Pixabay
Credits
Season Two Recorded at Bob's Basement Studios, Michigan
Produced and edited by Sara Kaye Larson
Intro/Outro Music: ‘Shifting pt. 2 (instrumental)’ by Rie Daisies
Executive Producer Kate ML Rogers
Season One Recorded at Troubadour Studios in Lansing, MI (now in Traverse City, MI!)
Audio Engineer Corey DeRushia
Edited by Rie Daisies at Nighttime Girlfriend Studio
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