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Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

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

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

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Society & Culture, History

4.8717 Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Margaret continues her talk with Jamie Loftus about Shawnee resistance to the American colonialism and a woman who led them in battle.

Sources:

https://colonialquills.blogspot.com/2017/07/revolutionary-mothers-nonhelema-of.html

https://kentucky-museum.org/nonhelema-hokolesqua/

https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-345-44554-4

https://sundownohio.substack.com/p/the-gnadenhutten-massacre

https://newreligiousmovements.org/b/bohemian-adamites/

https://www.reformedhistory.com/Content/Confessions/ArticlesOfPrague

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2015/mar/22/naked-truth-about-seventies-streaking-craze

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/iph4ag/why_did_the_czech_lands_remain_catholic_rather/

https://web.archive.org/web/20160223035154/http://www.moravian.org.uk/index.php/the-moravian-church/moravian-history

https://www.nrafamily.org/content/throwback-thursday-nonhelema-s-tale/

https://www.nationsandcannons.com/blog/nonhelema-chieftess-warrior-and-advocate-for-neutrality-in-the-revolutionary-war

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/metis

https://web.archive.org/web/20240624093053/https://lssse.indiana.edu/blog/guest-post-native-american-exclusion-as-a-form-of-paper-genocide/

https://frontierpartisans.com/281/the-shawnee-resistance/

https://www.americanhistorycentral.com/entries/pontiacs-rebellion/

https://bushyrunbattlefield.com/battle-of-bush-run-history/

https://battlefieldtravels.com/battle-of-bushy-run/

https://archive.wvculture.org/hiStory/journal_wvh/wvh56-5.html

https://www.midstory.org/over-240-years-later-an-ohio-community-remembers-its-founding-massacre/

https://journals.psu.edu/wph/article/download/60205/60154

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.5

Guaranteed Human

0:03.5

Cool Zone Media

0:07.2

Hello and welcome to cool people who did cool stuff.

0:11.5

Your weekly reminder that history is cool.

0:14.2

Oh God, that makes me sound like I'm about to turn my chair backwards and sit on it

0:18.2

with a backwards baseball cap.

0:20.9

You're right. I should get confirmed.

0:25.7

God is cool.

0:29.3

This would be like a college dropout trying to convince someone to finish their degree if I tell

0:33.9

you to get confirmed.

0:36.6

I never got confirmed.

0:38.6

Yeah, I didn't either.

0:40.2

But my guest, my unconfirmed guest, is Jamie Loftus.

0:45.8

Hi.

0:46.5

Yeah.

0:46.8

Hi.

0:47.4

Yeah, I'm not whole in the eyes of God.

0:49.4

No.

0:50.3

No.

0:50.9

Actually, originally, Jamie was going to be my guest for the Halloween episode originally, but things got in the way.

0:58.0

And I had been planning on specifically saying the Halloween episode was about druids.

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