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Wolftrax

By: Kristen Brown (with faculty interviews from Ken Blanchard)
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A podcast highlighting the research of students, staff, and faculty at Northern State University in Aberdeen, South Dakota. If this content resonates with you, please follow!

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Episodes
  • Native Voices of Resilience: Bringing the Past Forward
    Mar 20 2026

    Consisting of student research stories, this compilation emerged from Northern State University's ENGL 213 course, Indigenous Literatures: Bringing the Past Forward.

    Student contributors include Prancine Mendoza, Clara Cueller, Emily Kuntz, Logan Hinman, Laney Widener, and Josey Kelly.

    Access Prancine Mendoza's annotated Indigenous cookbook here

    Royalty Free Music from Tunetank.com (Pixabay)

    Contact Kristen Brown at kristen.brown@northern.edu

    The creator of more recent Wolftrax episodes is Dr. Kristen Brown, assistant professor of English at Northern State University in Aberdeen, South Dakota. Older (and forthcoming) content consisting of faculty interviews comes from Professor Emeritus Ken Blanchard, the original creator of Wolftrax.

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    27 mins
  • Many Voices, One Planet (Earth Day Compilation 2025)
    Apr 21 2025

    Welcome to the Third Annual Earth Day Compilation titled Many Voices, One Planet. This episode showcases semester-long student research from Dr. Kristen Brown's ENGL 201 Environmental Stewardship and Social Advocacy course.

    Join us in celebrating both academic excellence and environmental stewardship as we hear from the next generation of sustainability leaders on this Earth Day.

    “Wild Geese” by Mary Oliver read with the permission of The Charlotte Sheedy Literary Agency as agent for the author.

    Copyright 1986, 2003, 2006, 2017 by Mary Oliver with permission of Bill Reichblum

    The creator of more recent Wolftrax episodes is Dr. Kristen Brown, assistant professor of English at Northern State University in Aberdeen, South Dakota. Older (and forthcoming) content consisting of faculty interviews comes from Professor Emeritus Ken Blanchard, the original creator of Wolftrax.

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    42 mins
  • The Power of the Funny
    Apr 2 2025

    In this episode I talk with Assistant Professor of Sociology Pamela G. Monaghan-Geernaert and Associate Professor of Communications Liz Sills about Native American political humor. Professors Monaghan-Geernaert and Sills have an article published in the volume Political Humor Worldwide: The Cultural Context of Political Comedy, Satire, and Parody, (ed. Ofer Feldman, Springer 2024). The title of their article is "The Power of Funny: Indigenous High Art as Quiescence and Rebellion". Here is an excerpt from the article.

    "In 2006 Apsáalooke artist Wendy Red Star released a print entitled The Last Thanks. Reminiscent of da Vinci’s The Last Supper, the piece features Red Star (in a traditional elk tooth dress) seated amid plastic skeletons wearing stereotypical Native headdresses at a table littered with unhealthy, prepackaged food... The Last Thanks uses funny imagery to address this history with a message of looking toward the future with resilience while realistically confronting the horrors of the past.


    The creator of more recent Wolftrax episodes is Dr. Kristen Brown, assistant professor of English at Northern State University in Aberdeen, South Dakota. Older (and forthcoming) content consisting of faculty interviews comes from Professor Emeritus Ken Blanchard, the original creator of Wolftrax.

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    52 mins
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