Part One: Nonhelema: The Six Foot Six Warrior Woman of the Shawnee Who Fought the Empire

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🗓️ 24 November 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Margaret talks to Jamie Loftus about Shawnee resistance to the American colonialism and a woman who led them in battle

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.6	Guaranteed Human.
0:06.0	CoolZone Media.
0:09.1	Hello, and welcome to cool people who did cool stuff.
0:11.6	Your weekly reminder that whenever there's bad things happening,
0:13.8	there's people trying to do good things, and they often succeed.
0:18.0	And my name is Margaret Kiljoy, and I'm host and my guest today is Jamie Loftus.
0:23.1	And I waited until you were taking a drink before I said your name and made you have to answer.
0:27.9	I knew you were going to do that and I took the drink and I feel like it was a self-sabotaging thing that I just did.
0:34.2	It's all right. Jamie, how would you describe yourself if I didn't bother to write a sentence into this script that is your bio?
0:41.8	Oh, you know, I podcast.
0:44.7	Yeah.
0:46.2	That's, you know, you want to say more to make yourself feel better, but it kind of boils down to that.
0:53.2	I've probably told you, and I've told the audience this a thousand times about the stress dream I had where I had to explain at a party what I do for a living. It's a nightmare. It's a nightmare. Never ask someone what they're up to. Like, I end up doing it because what else you're going to ask someone, but like, how's that weather? It's so, yeah, you're like, what I do is like, don't worry about it. It's embarrassing. It's embarrassing. If you don't know already, you don't want to know. Yeah, that's, yeah, exactly. Well, who isn't embarrassed because she's not on a podcast today, is our producer, Sophie Lichten.
1:28.5	Oh my gosh.
1:31.1	Sophie is the queen of podcast.
1:34.3	She's the least embarrassing person in podcasting.
1:35.0	It's true.
1:37.0	And also the originator of podcasting.
1:39.5	Don't ask me to cite that.
1:40.7	It's in the show notes.
1:43.3	I had a stress dream last night.
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