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Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class A production of I Heart Radio. Happy Friday, everyone, I'm Tracy Wilson, and I'm Holly Fry. One of the episodes that we did this week was on The Shia, which but this episode is that kind of a saga. This is actually something that I wrote much earlier in the year. Sometimes we write episodes that are meant to be part of a sponsorship and then the pandemic happened and that sponsorship no longer was the thing.

It did eventually come back in a different form. But it meant that, like, I had to totally change gears and put that episode to the side. And so it is just now back back when I first wrote it, it was much more in the recent past that our Saturday classic on Hokusai had just been in an archive like it was really going to be like maybe three weeks after the Hokusai episode came out, this episode was going to come out.

That's how it happens sometimes. Yeah, that's you're behind the scenes insight into how the sausage gets. Yeah, sometimes we're working on sponsored content that has to get shuffled elsewhere. Yeah. Sometimes it doesn't have to do with the pandemic. Sometimes things just shift in like a yeah. A company that might sponsor us decides that they actually want to go in a different direction with like their creative and it doesn't quite work with our show anymore. And luckily you were able to repurpose the work you had done into just a regular episode.

I just kept it on the on the back burner for months. Bravo, you. I'm glad we got to talk about him.

I'm glad he didn't like wind up being shelved entirely because if you like, go try to dig up some information about him. Like there's there's not tons and tons of it available, especially outside of Japan.

But he really is regarded as one of the founders of like the Japanese technology industry. And his career spanned so many different phases of the way people were using different types of engineering in Japan and the way people were using different kinds of mechanization and what society was like. I mean, we are all products of the time that we are living in. And our lives changed dramatically based on changes in the world. That's obvious over the last many months. But I feel like he is a particularly standout example of somebody whose life and work were changed so dramatically by the factors of the world that he was living in.

Yeah, and he I mean, to my mind was obviously a genius. Right? So he was much like you were able to repurpose this episode. He was able to repurpose his knowledge of engineering and how to create something both artistic and technologically advanced and kind of like evolve with the times in ways that kept his work relevant, which is not something everybody can do. Yeah, and there are I mean, we said in it that there are pieces that he made that still work and still exist.

And if you Google him, you can find videos of many of them working. I watched the little archer fifteen times in a row.

This is so fascinating. How could you not I mean, like I said in the episode, like you say to those people, when I look at his work, I'm just like, well, I'm a stupid person. I could never get anywhere near what he could achieve. No amount of art I ever make will be this again. He's a genius, literal genius. Yeah. So on Wednesday, we talked about Nina Otara Warren.

Yeah. Who who caught my eye, like I said at the top of the episode, because I had not really been aware that there was part of the Voting Rights Act that was amended to specifically reference language minorities and the word of the act. And then she was a person that came up a lot in conversations about that. Obviously, she she did not work on the Voting Rights Act specifically, but like her work with Spanish speaking voters and suffrage for Spanish speakers was related to all of that.

I found it a little frustrating that it took so much digging to get into the more problematic and troubling aspects of her career that were related to indigenous people. It is troubling, but not surprising. It's no, it's not surprising. It was disappointing and it was also disappointing. One of the biographies that I used as a source for this episode, it's not even that it was it was from like nineteen ninety, I think. And it had this sentence that was like there were some genuine heroes in her family tree.

And then it went on to reference the fact that like all of these ancestors on one side of the family had been part of the Spanish conquest of the Americas. And I was like, I don't know that we can just uncritically call that. Heroic because as with other nations conquests in the Americas, there was a lot of genocide involved and like it just it made the whole but it made me have to read, like read the whole biography with an eye of being like, ah, what are you.

Are you leaving anything out here?

I feel like that's the trick with most biographies. Right. They lean one way or the other. Yeah. In an upcoming episode that we're doing. I really enjoyed that. One biographer in particular would call out like this biography that I have also used as a reference really loves this person. This biography is the critical version. This like they would kind of reference each of them and tell you if you want to get the take of someone who feels this way about this figure, here's the one to go to.

If you want the loving, forgiving version of theirs you want to go to, which was kind of a cool break down. You don't always get those clear delineations when reading another biography of a person.

Yeah, well, in her her work, like her work as school superintendent, clearly she she had to walk this very fine line where federal policy was that schools be taught only in English. And like that was the policy that she was having to work under a school superintendent. But like she also seems to have been like just trying to protect Spanish speaking students at the same time while trying to uphold this policy, which was also really important because we didn't really get into it in the episode.

But like there was a whole tragedy is not the right word. Like it was commonplace for teachers to wash students mouth out with soap for speaking Spanish at school. And so she was advocating against that kind of stuff while also just sort of trying to be this bridge between Anglo and Hispanic worlds. And so her life followed this trajectory where, you know, at first it was not permitted to teach students in Spanish at all. And then during her lifetime, the attitudes started to shift a little bit in New Mexico specifically to be like speaking another language is a gift.

And this cultural heritage that we have from having, like such a large Hispanic population is also a gift. And we need to preserve that and not try to just wipe it out. I'm mostly very excited about her basket of cocktails.

Her she had such a you know, in so many ways she was really defying convention. I mean, it was it was definitely social drinking was totally accepted within her social circle. But of drinking basket cracked me up. That's pretty good. That's a good detail. Yeah. And her as far as ethnically, you could have ethical and moral questions about telling people that you are widowed instead of divorced. But the fact that she just maintained that so that she could live her own life as much as possible, the way that she wanted to was pretty captivating to me.

But then at the same time, like it was clear that her younger sister, Anita, really suffered because of the fact that they were all obligated to do this with their expectations within the family. But like, it really seems like Nina's desire to go her own way meant that a whole lot fell on Anita's shoulders that Anita really did not enjoy. Yeah, that is heartbreaking to me.

It gets into a whole other area of, like familial obligation and relations and what people value and how they value those things differently. And, you know, I mean, I would probably be the horrible I would 100 percent be the horrible sibling that's like Sariel. This is not for me. No.

Yeah. So she's a complicated person. I hope we we did justice to the fact that, like, she did a lot of work that was really important, but also kind of a tangle. Yeah. So happy Friday.

I hope everybody is having a you know, whatever whatever is coming ahead of you this weekend. I hope it is safe and pleasant and restful as possible. Again, again, I'm always like, if you're working this weekend, I hope customers are nice to you.

Like, I've just seen so many people talking about customers being mean lately. So if you're going out to places this weekend, please be kind.

And, you know, we continue to have our wish for everybody to be as safe and well as possible in these times that are still continuing to be this way.

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