D Todd Lawrence: Environmental and Racial Injustice

Maida Owens: Climate Change

Folklorist Maida Owens and I discuss her concerns about the impact that climate change is having on her home state of Louisiana. She walks listeners through a recent workshop she gave to the American Folklore Society and explains how others can get involved. https://www.louisianafolklife.org/ [https://www.louisianafolklife.org/] mowens@crt.la.gov [mowens@crt.la.gov] https://americanfolkloresociety.org/resources/climate-change-needs-folklorists-a-workshop-with-maida-owens/ [https://americanfolkloresociety.org/resources/climate-change-needs-folklorists-a-workshop-with-maida-owens/]

Jim Leary: Songs of Migration

Enjoy this discussion with folklorist Jim Leary as we listen to selected musical pieces and discuss how they are musical lamentings of migration and how current refugees have the same deeply held and emotional connection to place.  https://gns.wisc.edu/person/james-p-leary/ [https://gns.wisc.edu/person/james-p-leary/] jpleary@wisc.edu [jpleary@wisc.edu]

Chad Buterbaugh and Ryan Koons: Land Acknowledgments with Maryland State Arts Council

Join me as I discuss the many projects of the Maryland State Arts Council, including their new Land Acknowledgment initiative, with Chad Buterbaugh and Ryan Koons.   https://msac.org/programs/maryland-traditions [https://msac.org/programs/maryland-traditions] https://msac.org/resources/land-acknowledgements [https://msac.org/resources/land-acknowledgements] chad.buterbaugh@maryland.gov [chad.buterbaugh@maryland.gov] ryan.koons@maryland.gov [ryan.koons@maryland.gov]

D Todd Lawrence: Environmental and Racial Injustice

Folklorist D Todd Lawrence discusses his book When They Blew the Levee and talks about environmental and racial injustice.  DTLAWRENCE@stthomas.edu [DTLAWRENCE@stthomas.edu] https://cas.stthomas.edu/departments/faculty/david-todd-lawrence/ [https://cas.stthomas.edu/departments/faculty/david-todd-lawrence/] https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/W/When-They-Blew-the-Levee [https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/W/When-They-Blew-the-Levee] https://georgefloydstreetart.omeka.net/ [https://georgefloydstreetart.omeka.net/]

David Lewis: TEK

In this episode, anthropologist and Native history professor from Oregon State University, David Lewis, a member of the Grand Ronde Tribe discusses Native oral histories and traditional ecological knowledge (TEK).  //liberalarts.oregonstate.edu/users/david-lewis [https://liberalarts.oregonstate.edu/users/david-lewis] ndnhistoryresearch.com lewisd@oregonstate.edu [lewisd@oregonstate.edu]