Episodes

  • The Ohio Country Episode 6: The 1700s

    The Ohio Country Episode 6: The 1700s
    Aug 13 2024
    The Ohio Country’s population and economy were transformed in the 1700s as the Shawnee, Miami, and others returned to the region, and traders and settlers arrived by the thousands.
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    27 mins
  • The Ohio Country Episode 5: The Fort Ancient Culture

    The Ohio Country Episode 5: The Fort Ancient Culture
    Aug 6 2024
    Shawnee and Myaamia ancestral cultures have been grouped into the Adena, Hopewell and Fort Ancient eras. Fort Ancient era people thrived for 700 years before Europeans arrived.
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    32 mins
  • The Ohio Country Episode 4: Fire

    The Ohio Country Episode 4: Fire
    Jul 30 2024
    In this episode, we'll hear about the Shawnee and Miami practice of intentionally burning land. But when the settlers came to the Ohio Country, they did not embrace that practice. Can it come back?
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    39 mins
  • The Ohio Country Episode 3: Shawnee life on the land

    The Ohio Country Episode 3: Shawnee life on the land
    Jul 22 2024
    In this episode, we talk with three American Indian historical interpreters about the Shawnee lifeway in the Ohio River Valley, walking through each season.
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    31 mins
  • The Ohio Country Episode 2: Rewriting the narrative

    The Ohio Country Episode 2: Rewriting the narrative
    Jul 16 2024
    From Blue Jacket's adoption to where Tecumseh was born, there's a lot of false mythology about Shawnee history in what we now call southwest Ohio. This episode explores the region’s narrative through a more accurate, inclusive lens.
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    36 mins
  • The Ohio Country Episode One: Still Here

    The Ohio Country Episode One: Still Here
    Jul 9 2024
    In this episode, we meet a visionary leader from the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma working to reconnect her community with their homelands.
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    35 mins
  • The Ohio Country: A Preview

    The Ohio Country: A Preview
    Jul 2 2024
    In our upcoming series, we will provide a perspective on the history of the region we now call Ohio that very few of us learned in school. We'll put the experiences of Miami, Shawnee, Wyandotte, and other American Indian people at the center of a refreshed version of the state’s complicated past and undecided future.
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    6 mins
  • Coming July 2: The Ohio Country

    Coming July 2: The Ohio Country
    Jun 28 2024
    The Ohio Country is a new 12-episode podcast series beginning July 2, 2024.
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    Less than 1 minute