Nebraska Government and Politics

Rebecca Nagle: By the Fire We Carry

Rebecca Nagle talks about her book, "By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land" (Harper Collins Publishers, 2024), winner of the 2025 Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize from the Center for Great Plains Studies. Nagle is an award-winning journalist and a citizen of Cherokee Nation living in Oklahoma. She is the writer and host of the podcast "This Land."

Nebraska Government and Politics

On this episode of Great Plains Anywhere, we talk with the co-editors of the new edition of "Nebraska Government and Politics," a book that provides background and context to the origins of Nebraska's political culture and institutions. Robert Blair is a professor emeritus at the School of Public Administration at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Christian Janousek is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Creighton University, and Jerome Deichert is director emeritus for the Center for Public Affairs Research at UNO.

Tabitha Hughes: Tracking Elk in Nebraska

Great Plains Anywhere talks with Tabitha Hughes, a doctoral student at the University of Nebraska's School of Natural Resources. Hughes is the lead author on a new study tracking the movement of elk in Nebraska, published in the journal of "Biological Conservation." We talk about the history of elk in Nebraska, where they're located now, and how they migrate through the area. Hughes is a doctoral student of Professor John Benson, who is also working on the project. See a video version of this podcast at go.unl.edu/gpanywhere.

Big Gumdrop Outdoors

Meet Elijah Riley, Founder & Executive Director, and Kyndal Hudson, Operations Director, with Big Gumdrop Outdoors, a new Nebraska non-profit dedicated to educating underserved youth about nature. The Community Partner in Residence program at the Center for Great Plains Studies is a new program designed to promote greater collaboration between the Center and community organizations in the Lincoln area that engage in some way with the mission of the Center. Our first Community Partner in Residence for 2025 is Big Gumdrop Outdoors.

Pride in the Plains: Wichita's Queer History Project

A team from Wichita State University's Department of History is documenting queer history in Wichita, Kansas, in a new photo history book from Arcadia Publishing. Dr. Jay Price, chair of history of WSU has overseen a series of photo history books about different historical topics in the region, with the newest one focused on the deep history of the LGBTQ community in Wichita. Our student storyteller Kaitlyn Richards talked with Dr. Price along with graduate student Derek Landwehr and Center of Wichita's Chair Brent Kennedy about this project, which will release in June 2025. This is the final episode of our student storyteller's podcast takeover, thanks for listening to Pride in the Plains this semester. We'll return soon with more Great Plains Anywhere.