Tiya Miles With Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation

American Inspiration Series Author Talk: Celebrating women throughout our country’s diverse history, Tiya Miles, award-winning Harvard historian, converses with Pulitzer Prize winner Laurel Thatcher Ulrich about the natural world and the women who changed America.
Louisa May Alcott ran wild, eluding gendered expectations in New England. Harriet Tubman, forced to labor outdoors on a Maryland plantation, learned from the land a terrain for escape. The Indigenous women’s basketball team from Fort Shaw, Montana, recaptured a sense of pride in physical prowess as they trounced competitors at the 1904 World’s Fair. Spotlighting such women who acted on their confidence outdoors, Wild Girls brings new context to misunderstood icons like Sacagawea and Pocahontas, and to underappreciated figures like Native American activist writer Zitkála-Šá, also known as Gertrude Bonnin, farmworkers’ champion Dolores Huerta, and labor and Civil Rights organizer Grace Lee Boggs.
For these trailblazing women of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, navigating the woods, following the stars, playing sports, and taking to the streets in peaceful protest were not only joyful pursuits; they were techniques to resist assimilation, racism, and sexism. Lyrically written and full of archival discoveries, this beautiful, meditative work of history puts girls of all races-and the landscapes they loved-at center stage, and reveals the impact of the outdoors on women’s independence, resourcefulness, and vision.
0:00:41 - Introduction
0:04:20 - Tiya Miles Presentation
0:30:53 - Discussion with Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
01:08:55 - Author Reading
01:11:00 - Closing Remarks
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So important 😂

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When u give to nature it gives back. I had a blue butterfly rest on a blue fold out chair next to me. It hung out for at least 20 minutes. I had planted many plants, including pollinators, prior to the visitation. The butterfly visitation for me was a thank you for giving back. It is amazing what u attract when u give to nature. I also had a hummingbird visit and was arms length in-front of me. This is just skimming the surface of the things I’ve witnessed and how nature has gifted me. In stark contrast, the flower beds of a home in front of me had no flowers and the only thing I could see from a near distance was a plastic crow left out from the halloween past. What we give to nature and how we interact with it can greatly impact us in many ways. In summary, what we get back is in relation to what we give. It requires a little effort on our part🫖.