Paul Bunyan and Indigenous Traditions w/ Leah Lemm
Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore
Multitude
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2021
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Sometimes you just gotta go off about Paul Bunyan and timber. We’re joined by Leah Lemm, who shares with us growing up with Paul Bunyan stories, how he became a villain in her eyes, and how to honor history without making things up.
Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of colonialism, ecoterrorism, deforestation, violence against Indigenous people, manifest destiny, human rights violations, animal death, generational trauma, cannibalism, ableism, bullying, fire/burning, drowning, and animal attacks.
Guest
Leah Lemm is a radio & podcast host/producer, singer/songwriter, and a member of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe. Her work revolves around sound/music/voice and community story-sharing, with the mission to Amplify Native Voices. She currently lives in Grand Rapids, MN with her husband, young son, and country dog. For information about her podcast, Wisdom Continuum, visit their website.
Housekeeping
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About Us
Spirits was created by Julia Schifini, Amanda McLoughlin and Eric Schneider. We are founding members of Multitude, an independent podcast collective and production studio. Our music is "Danger Storm" by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Spirits Podcast. This is where we dive into mythology, legends, and folklore, |
| 0:05.5 | learning about a new story from around the world each week. I'm Amanda. My co-host, Julia, |
| 0:09.2 | is recovering from a cold, but we're very excited to welcome you to episode 258, Paul Bunyan |
| 0:14.1 | and Indigenous Traditions with Leah Lem, a fantastic journalist and storyteller whose brand-new |
| 0:19.4 | podcast Wisdom Continuum is available now. |
| 0:22.4 | So without further ado, we'd love to first thank our newest patrons, |
| 0:26.6 | Catherine Erther, Derek, Queen Z, Medusa Scrunchy, very good, and Marcus. |
| 0:31.6 | Thank you for your support of the show. |
| 0:33.3 | You along with fellow patrons, like Alicia, Brian, Hannah, Jack Marie, Jane, Jessica Stewart, |
| 0:38.3 | Neaselkins, Megan Moon, Phil Fresh, Captain Jonathan, Malachi, Cosmos, Sarah, Scott, and Zazi, |
| 0:42.5 | and our legend-level patrons, of course, Audra, Bex, Clara, Drew, Jay Bay, Lexus, Mary, Morgan, Morgan H, |
| 0:48.0 | Mother of Vikings, Sarah, Taylor, and BMEF Scotty. |
| 0:50.3 | You are the backbone of our show, and the folks whose support lets us keep doing this. |
| 0:55.0 | You also get, because you're very cool and support us on Patreon, all kinds of rewards and |
| 0:58.9 | benefits, like director's commentary for every episode, alcoholic and non-alcoholic drink cards |
| 1:03.7 | custom for each episode that Julia makes that you can download for all 250 some eight episodes |
| 1:09.1 | of the show that we have done so far and all kinds of other benefits |
| 1:12.1 | like physical merch including we've done it we've made a crew neck sweatshirt with mothman's |
| 1:17.1 | butt on it zoe zoe polando writer is such a fantastic illustrator and the person who made our |
| 1:23.1 | tarot cards which are now sold out by the way You guys like them a lot and noted we're going to |
| 1:27.7 | work on seeing if we can get any more. But in the meantime, you can get our mothman tarot |
| 1:31.8 | card design on a crew neck on your chest to have mothmans, but on your physical form at |
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