We'wha

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4.8 • 644 Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2019

⏱️ 78 minutes

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In celebration of Indigenous Peoples Day, today's episode is on the 19th-century Zuni craftsperson and ambassador, We'wha. Join us as we discuss We'wha's lhamana gender, their meeting with President Grover Cleveland, and how they single-handedly forced 27 US soldiers into retreat. If you enjoy this episode, consider supporting us on Patreon, checking out our merch, and following us on Twitter, Tumblr and Facebook.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Queer's Fact, the podcast bringing you queer history from around the world and throughout time.
0:04.8	I'm Alice.
0:05.5	I'm Irene.
0:06.3	I'm Eli.
0:07.0	And today we're talking about the Zuni Craftsperson, Ambassador and Larmina Wewer.
0:19.4	We have some content warnings before we begin this episode.
0:21.9	There's going to be a brief mention of war.
0:23.9	We're going to be talking about interactions between Zuni people and the USA in the 19th century,
0:28.7	so everything that comes with that.
0:31.2	That's going to include mentions of smallpox and deaths from smallpox within the Zuni community,
0:36.0	discussion of the USA's assimilationist
0:37.7	policies and military interventions at Zuni, and discussions of coercive methods used against
0:43.7	Zuni people by 19th century white anthropologists. We're also going to be talking about
0:48.3	historical and modern queer phobia, historical racism and abelism, violence, imprisonment and torture.
0:55.5	If any of that sounds like something you don't want to listen to,
0:57.6	feel free to skip this episode and listen to another of our episodes.
1:01.3	Do we know for a fact that people listen to these parts of content warnings?
1:06.0	I've never considered this. Have we checked? Are you still here?
1:10.1	I'm going to ask a question for you, say anything literally at all. Do you know what I've considered this. Have we checked? So are we checked? You still here? Okay. Cool.
1:16.3	I'm going to ask a question for you, say anything literally at all. Did you say Laminor before?
1:16.9	Yes.
1:20.9	What is a laminor? That is a good question and kind of the topic of this episode.
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