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Blaire Morseau and Neshnabé Knowledge

Blaire Morseau and Neshnabé Knowledge

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In this episode, Dr. Blaire Morseau joins Dr. Davina Two Bears and Dr. Farina King to discuss her work with Neshnabé (Potawatomi) knowledge systems, focusing on birch bark, language, and archives. Dr. Morseau highlights the significance of Simon Pokagon's nineteenth-century birch bark books, featured in her edited volume As Sacred to Us: Simon Pokagon’s Birch Bark Stories in their Contexts. The conversation explores how traditional cultural knowledge and ecological wisdom are preserved and revitalized through these archival works.

Dr. Blaire Morseau, a citizen of the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Michigan State University. Her research spans Indigenous science fiction, traditional ecological knowledge, digital heritage, and Native counter-mapping. Her forthcoming book, Mapping Neshnabé Futurity (May 2025), explores how Native environmental activism and traditional knowledge intersect with Indigenous speculative fiction to reclaim Indigenous spaces in the Great Lakes region.

Additional Resources:

Blaire Morseau (Topash-Caldwell) website

Blaire Morseau, Michigan State University directory webpage

Blaire Morseau, ed. As Sacred to Us: Simon Pokagon's Birch Bark Stories in Their Contexts (Michigan State University Press, 2023)

Here is a discount code for Morseau's book, As Sacred to Us, if purchased directly from MSU press: MSUP24

Blaire Morseau, Mapping Neshnabé Futurity: Celestial Currents of Sovereignty in Potawatomi Skies, Lands, and Waters (University of Arizona Press, 2025)

Here is the linked flyer with a discount code for Mapping Neshnabé Futurity.

Listen to recordings of tribal citizens reading Simon Pokagon's birch bark stories on the following websites:
wiwkwebthegen.com
https://wiwkwebthegen.com/digital
heritage/category/audio/field_collection/2069
This was an initiative sponsored by the Less Commonly Taught and Indigenous Languages Partnership at MSU through the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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