EP 4: Black Land Loss

When Lee got the results back from his DNA test, he was stunned to discover that he had pages and pages of white cousins. All his life he’d been under the impression that 95% of his DNA traced to West Africa. This discovery opened up a new historical pathway, one that traces all ...  Show more

Rules were a major part of Lee’s household growing up. But it wasn’t until he started to dig into his family’s history that he began to realize that the rules that he was expected to follow had a long, dark history. In this episode, Lee speaks with historian Dr. Daina Ramey Berry ...  Show more

Shots fired in Taranaki in 1860 sparked decades of conflict and the country's longest running war. The rapidly growing settler population is desperate for more land while local iwi are more reluctant to sell. In part three, we look at the New Zealand Company's dodgy deals and res ...  Show more

In this classic episode Darrell L. Bock and Jurrita Williams discuss her family history and the… [removed] 

In 1994, the Sherman family purchased a stunning piece of property in northeast Utah. Unbeknownst to them, their new home had a history of strange phenomena dating all the way back to the 1700s, the local Native American tribe believed the land was cursed, and the previous owners ...  Show more

Richard J. Lonsinger is a member of the Ponca tribe of Oklahoma, who was adopted at a young age into a white family of three. He eventually reconnected with his birth family, but when his birth mother passed away in 2010, he wasn't included in the distribution of her estate. Feel ...  Show more