Storyteller Sue Thompson tells us the story of Stagecoach Mary.

In this recording from Feb. 10, 2010, Dr. Labode, Assistant Professor History and Museum Studies at IUPUI, discusses her background in African American History as well as highlighting several key points that will be shared during her upcoming lecture entitled, Jim Crow in the Mile High City.

On this episode we talk with the director of the Dec. 13 performance of The Calico Apron to be performed here at the museum. She goes through the history of the play and the events that led up to the writing of this piece. It is a fictional story based on the Cherokee grandmother's experience on the Trail of Tears.

John Well-Off-Man was born and raised in Havre, Montana, and on the Rocky Boy Reservation.  After receiving his diploma in photography from Ohio Visual Art Institute, he studied printmaking at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe.  John worked as a photographer/film developer for Instructional Media Services at the University of Montana.  During this time he also produced exhibits for the Missoula Historical Society and the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library of the University of Montana.  He produced the visual exhibit “Their Eyes Tell Everything,” a photo-history for the Montana Chippewa-Cree.  The exhibit is now in the permanent collection of the Montana Museum of Art & Culture.

Artist in Residence Bruce Hucko sat down and talked with David R Boxley (Tsimshian) and talked with him about his culture. During the conversation David sings some traditional songs as well as one he wrote himself. Hucko was at the Eiteljorg Museum as an artist in residence and he also documented Indian Market and Festival during his time here.

Listen in as John Vanausdall, Eiteljorg president and CEO, Jonathan Hess, architect with Browning Day Mullins Dierdorf and architect of the Eiteljorg Museum and Roger Eiteljorg, museum's board chair and son of museum founder Harrison Eiteljorg.

This week guest host Angela Hurley, the Eiteljorg's membership manager, talks with Indiana's former first lady, Judy O'Bannon. They talk about Mrs. O'Bannon's experiences through the history of the museum and what being a member has meant to her.

On this episode, we talk with artist in residence Marty Gradolf (Winnebago). She is a weaver and works to make statements with her work. She started from very practical means with placemats and the like and now teaches and creates beautiful work making statements on Native American issues. Her work can be found in the collection of the Eiteljorg Museum in the special exhibtion Facing West: Celebrating 20 years of the Eiteljorg Museum. Find more information about Marty on our show notes page www.eiteljorg.org/ejm_AudioVideo/shownotes.asp.

This week we talk with Modupe Labode, Assistant Professor History and Museum Studies at IUPUI. She talks with us about slavery and the emancipation proclamation and its impacts in the Colorado Territory.

John Pigeon is a member of the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi. He specializes in black ash basketry which involves pounding the wood of a black ash tree until he can pull long strips from it. His knowledge of basketry comes from his parents and grandparents and he continues the tradition with his children who have also become weavers.

Miles and Fields, artists-in-residence at the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, shared their unique creativity with IPS students, joining budding artists from Arsenal Tech High School, Harshman Middle School and Schools 14 and 54, to create a mural that will travel to each of the schools and find a permanent home at the John H. Boner Community Center on the Indianapolis' East Side.

On this segment of Storytime with Sue, she presents the holiday classic 12 Days of Christmas but with a little twist. The music found in this podcast is by The Mystery Renderer.

This week we talk to Kendra Tagoona and Charlotte Qamaniq both throat singers from Ottawa, Canada. They let us in on how they got into throat singing, the history of it and what throat singing is. Visit the Our Land opening events page on our Website to see an example of throat singing.

This week Tamara Winfrey Harris speaks with artist-in-residence Catalina Degado Trunk. While Catalina Delgado Trunk's academic art training focused on painting and drawing, her current work is rooted in the folk arts of her native Mexico. Catalina integrates traditional Mexican art forms–such as public ofrendas (temporary altars) and papel picado (cut paper)–with non-traditional or unusual themes that reflect today’s society. Trunk talks about how most of her works of art consist of altars or cut paper images that echo mythical, spiritual, and religious iconography or honor historic and contemporary personalities. In this episode she talks about her work and the Mexican celebration of Día de los Muertos.

This week producer Anthony Scott takes the reigns for an interview with Baxter Black. This cowboy poet and former large animal vet tells some great stories of the range and how got started.

This week, host, Tamara Winfrey Harris talks with Kristen Kuntz. She is interning with the marketing and communications department of the musem and talks about what she likes about the museum.