Inclusive History

In this episode we present the finding of the 2021 State of Mental Health in America while learning about the history of mental health treatment and understanding of mental illness. Dorothea Dix, Nellie Bly and Clifford Beers are all featured in this episode.

In this episode Scot Zellmer shares what he's learned from his research as well as his relationships with the community in the Rosebud Reservation. We talk about the difference between Counter-Narrative and Dominant Narrative in understanding the Dakota Conflict, the Trans-Continental Railroad and the history of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and their conflict with the Dakota Access Pipeline.

In our second episode with Kylin Camburn, we learn about Queer history from the 1960s until the Marriage Equality Act of 2015.

In this powerful collaboration I am joined by Scot Zellmer who is related to members of the Rosebud Tribe in South Dakota. In this episode I share historical information while Scot offers a first hand account of the 2021 reinterment of nine children that died at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in the 1880s. Boarding schools throughout the United States and Canada in the 19th and 20th centuries are a source of generation trauma that still impacts Native Americans today. Although it is difficult history to learn, it is important to understand in order to reconcile our past and create a better future.

This episode is about women who were brave enough to write the truth even though it upset those in power.