We’re exploring Creative Expression within rebellion. Bonnie starts us off with the sculpture artist, Edmonia Lewis. Edmonia brought her African and Native American heritage to a neoclassical marble sculpture. Learn all about her incredible work. About The Gal’s Guide Podcast Join us on an adventure to get to know famous and infamous women from around […]
February is Solidarity Month at Gal’s Guide. Bonnie starts off by talking about the movement and awareness of the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW). About The Gal’s Guide Podcast Join us on an adventure to get to know famous and infamous women from around the world. Each of our presenters has a pick. Is she ancient history? […]
Riwo finishes up South American month talking about a historian who taught us how to learn about the Incas not from a western perspective, not from a Spanish conquistador perspective, but that of the ancestry of the people, the Andeans. Learn about the fantastic historian Maria Rostworowski. About The Gal’s Guide Podcast Join us on […]
Katie finishes up American Farmers Month with the Indigenous peoples’ mythos of planting corn, beans, and squash. About The Gal’s Guide Podcast Join us on an adventure to get to know famous and infamous women from around the world. Each of our presenters has a pick. Is she ancient history? Is she breaking news? Is […]
Josh returns to the podcast to talk about the medicinal plant biologist, Nokwanda Pearl Makunga. Professor Nox is a researcher in Biotechnology at Stellenbosch University. Her work is fascinating if you have a green thumb and even if you don’t! About The Gal’s Guide Podcast New for 2024! Join us on an adventure to get […]
For the last episode of Season 6, Barb ends Medicine Woman month with Omaha Medical doctor, Susan La Flesche Picotte. Season 7 begins on January 8, 2024, with Australian Gals. About The Gal’s Guide Podcast What if you could only share 1 cool thing about a topic? Would it be about ancient history? Would it […]
Medicine Woman Month continues! Leah tells us about the amazing Gladys Tantaquidgeon who was 3rd generation medicine woman who lived to age 106! Show Notes About The Gal’s Guide Podcast What if you could only share 1 cool thing about a topic? Would it be about ancient history? Would it be breaking news? Would it […]
Bonnie starts off Medicine Woman Month by talking about the Great Healer of the Native American People, Qi-yo Ke-Pe. Show Notes The book Bonnie read from and mentioned is Spider Woman’s Web: Traditional Native American Tales About Women’s Power by Susan Hazen-Hammond. The book is being acquired by Gal’s Guide Library. About The Gal’s Guide […]
Medicine Women exist in tribes, villages, and cities. Sometimes we use the name healer, herbalist, shaman, or wise elder. A medicine woman supplies to her people whatever her people need, when they need it. Medicine Women are part of our past and our present. Special Events This Month Monthly & Weekly Clubs Get in Touch. […]
Barb tells us about Lozen, the Chiricahua Warm Springs Apache who was a skillful warrior and a shield to her people. There is a trigger warning for this episode as we do discuss the capture and the imprisonment of Lozen and her people. Show Notes About The Gal’s Guide Podcast What if you could only […]
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