Permit Us to Speak Plainly by Andrew Newman - PDF
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2022-06-13T20:41:59+00:00
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Members of the Munsee community had been displaced to present-day Kansas by the 1840s, but they well recalled their northeastern homelands and knew what befell their ancestors more than two centuries before. When they described their legacy of dispossession in a petition to the U.S. President in 1849, their "X-mark" signatures connoted illiteracy--but the history they recounted showed enduring and reliable knowledge.
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Andrew Newman discusses the Munsee petition in this episode of our podcast series, Listening to Hidden Literacies.
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2022-07-25T18:19:58+00:00
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While Simon Pokagan's stories have been studied for their narratives, less attention has given to the scientific knowledge they preserve about living on the eastern shoreline of what is now known as Lake Michigan. His stories contain not only information of cultural importance to the Pottawatomie, but also complex information about climatology, sustainability, and how to live in this particular space.
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Margaret Noodin discusses the knowledge-keeping of science in this episode of our podcast series, Listening to Hidden Literacies.