Part Two: Nonhelema: The Six Foot Six Warrior Woman of the Shawnee Who Fought the Empire
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🗓️ 26 November 2025
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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.
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| 0:07.2 | Hello and welcome to cool people who did cool stuff. |
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| 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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