Podcast Feature: The Mothball Prophecies Ep. 52

A few weeks ago, I sat down with Sam and Jill, co-hosts of the podcast called The Mothball Prophecies. It’s a show dedicated to folks who collect antiques, oddities, and other vintage treasures. I’ve followed them since they interviewed my boss, Linda Davies, a wonderful lady who runs an estate liquidation business called Wildhare Estate Sales & Liquidation. I’ve worked for Linda for a little over a year now and boy, have I learned a lot! You can find her interview here. I highly recommend listening to it. Linda is a fabulous storyteller and this interview is a joy to listen to.

My interview is a little (a lot) less polished, but I speak my truth and that’s what counts. I talk about my family, home, and the things I do to fill my time here on earth. I talk about the complexities of being indigenous, more specifically Shoshone-Bannock, in what is our apocalyptic landscape. I talk about why I dress in vintage clothing, and why the mid-century aesthetic appeals to me. The short answer? It makes me feel like myself. The long answer involves my thought process regarding our history and how everything is connected. How the birth of the American Dream in the rise of democratic capitalism has brought us here. How my people survived when we weren’t supposed to. I’d like to think that my personal aesthetic is a nod to creating my own path. To being a survivor. Just like the decades-old wardrobe that hangs in my closet.

Listen to my interview here.

Below you will find photographs of my matriarchal lineage- starting from my great-great-great-grandmother Pia Paa (Bannock), her daughter Effie Diggie (Shoshone-Bannock), my other great-great grandmother Minnie Yandell LeSieur (Shoshone-Bannock), her daughter Leona LeSieur Getty (Shoshone-Bannock), my great grandmother Nettie Lee Getty McCarley (Shoshone-Bannock), and my Gagu’ (grandmother) Kristine Houtz Elison (Shoshone-Bannock). I am grateful to know their stories and will tell them someday.