Sharing Souls Laura Huskey is a Choctaw artist and storyteller who believes that language and art are the foundations of keeping our cultures alive for future generations.

We recently caught up with Choctaw artist Laura Huskey to hear how the history of the #ChoctawGift and Choctaw-Irish friendship inspires her practice.

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📢Tonight!📢

Join Choctaw and Irish weavers as they discuss and demonstrate their crafts. Free to attend:

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Sharing Souls Laura Huskey is a Choctaw artist and storyteller who believes that language and art are the foundations of keeping our cultures alive for future generations.

We recently caught up with Choctaw artist Laura Huskey to hear how the history of the #ChoctawGift and Choctaw-Irish friendship inspires her practice.

Read more over on our blog: sharinglands.com/2025/11/14/s...

Weaving Together: A Conversation With Choctaw & Irish Basket Makers Join Choctaw and Irish basket makers Aliyah Myers, Colton James, and Tom Delaney as they discuss and demonstrate their crafts.

Visited us at @beinghumanfest.bsky.social and want to know more about the Choctaw-Irish connection?

Join @padraigkirwan.bsky.social for a conversation with #Choctaw and #Irish weavers as they explore the resonances between their crafts.

Free, booking required.
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Massive thanks too to Jacob Sakil, who runs American Bites in Peckham, for his cooking, for sharing traditions & stories, & being a real friend to the project. Who else would have made the Choctaw dish bvnaha *&* Irish cornbread. Go raibh mile maith agat!

Sharing Lands was delighted with - and rather blown away by - the crowds, the energy, & the enthusiasm @ the Festival of Migration, held @TheAlbanySE8 on Saturday, November 18. Huge thanks to everyone who participated, & the organisers (especially @willcenci & our Goldsmiths' RKE colleagues).

Visit us *this Saturday!*

On 8 November, come down to @thealbanyse8.bsky.social to sample Choctaw and Irish foods and share your 🌽 recipes whilst thinking about the Indigenous origins behind everyday global foods.

On All Soul's Day, Irish people lit candles on graves, left food for the dead, & were in communication with the ancestors. Meanwhile, evil spirits were warded against (carved turnips being especially good guardians! Over time, pumpkins were used in the US). #interconnectedness #enduringtraditions

A picture of an ofrenda (altar) showing brightly painted skulls, pictures of deceased relatives & ansestors, and brightly coloured orange & red fabrics & flowers.

On Samhain, & ahead of Día de los Muertos, we wanted to share a picture of the ofrenda (altar) on show
@BriscoeMuseum. Complex, palimpsestic, layering's of pre-Christian & Catholic traditions are evident in both Irish & Indigenous cultures. Aztec culture honoured the dead in a month-long festival.

Everyone at Sharing Lands is truly excited about this upcoming event! Please do share details of this online event widely (& pop along if you can). Our thanks to Aliyah, Colt & Tom for their help, advice, & involvement so far.

A 1930 picture of the Cambridge Theatre, Seven Dials in Matt Houlbrook's book Songs of Seven Dials photographed in front of the Cambridge Theatre, Seven Dials in October 2025.

Interested in the history of Seven Dials or London or the 1920s and 1930s? I'm doing some walking tours of the Dials with @stanfordstravel.bsky.social on Sat 15 Nov.

There's loads to see, but Seven Dials is so small you don't need to walk far.

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Described by Graham Davis as "entrepreneurs and opportunists in search of land", & "early aggressors" by Harry Dunleavy, the lives of those men - & some other Irish/American settlers - warrants close re-examination & scrutiny by scholars studying Indigenous Removal, continuance, & resistance today.

Corpus Christi is a great place to consider the roles that Irish empresario's like James Power and James Hewetson played in US history after the passing of the "Law for Promoting Colonization in the State of Coahuila and Texas," March 24, 1825.

Corpus Christi: Irish children of the 1980s (ie some of the Sharing Lands team!) may associate Corpus Christi with something other than beautiful coastlines! (irishtimes.com/culture/heri...) Happily, our recent trip changed that, & immersed us in yet more fascinating, often challenging, histories...

Tomorrow (w ISS21 & @radhumslab.bsky.social)! Come join us!

The house needs some love today, & is currently for sale. Nevertheless, it stands as an intriguing & powerful reminder of the interwoven & rich histories found in Austin #irishaustin #blackhistory #sharinglands #thegift

A professor at Samuel Huston College, John was a prominent educator. He & Laura opened their home to travellers during the Jim Crow era, when white-owned lodgings turned Black customers away; their home featured in the Green Book. Laura continued the work after John's death.

We've lots to share about our recent trip to Texas, & want to start with the Limerick-Frazier house in Austin. Designed by Joseph Limerick, who was born in 1798 & left Ireland in 1850, the house was bought by John & Laura Allman Frazier in 1905.

It's just under 2 weeks until @beinghumanfest.bsky.social 'Festival of Migration'!

Come down to sample Choctaw and Irish recipes and discover the Indigenous histories behind everyday foods. @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social @goldsmithsenglish.bsky.social

The Treaty of Doak’s Stand: 250 years on On the 250th anniversary of the Treaty of Doak’s Stand, we reflect on its particular history, and the complexities of sovereignty and dispossession it represents for Choctaw history.

250 years on from the signing of the Treaty of Doak's Stand, the Sharing Lands team reflect on this complex moment in Choctaw history, and the ways in which it represents tribal sovereignty and survivance today.

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It's a busy week for our team!

Our postdoctoral researcher Dr Shelley Angelie Saggar wrote about her research on the culinary connections between Native American and Irish food cultures for @historyworkshop.org.uk 🌽

Reflections on the Choctaw-Ireland Scholarship: Rediscovering Identity and Forging Lasting Alliances Former Choctaw-Ireland scholarship recipient Skylee Glass reflects on her time in Ireland and the lasting bond between peoples that continues to this day.

We caught up with Skylee Glass, a former Choctaw-Ireland scholar at @ucc.ie this summer to find out more about her experience of studying in Ireland.

Read Skylee's reflections on the future relationship between the Choctaw and Irish peoples over on our blog.

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Choctaw Nation Trail of Tears Bike Team: The journey of remembering our ancestors continues - Biskinik Riders get first hand look at Trail of Tears.

Great to see our research mentioned in July's issue of #Biskinik the tribal newspaper of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma.

Look out for our PI @padraigkirwan.bsky.social who is quoted in the article about his participation in this year's ride!

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To the finish line! As the 2025 Trail of Tears Bike Team reach the end of this year’s ride, Dr Padraig Kirwan reflects back on the journey.

How do we move through the land with remembrance?

Last month @padraigkirwan.bsky.social joined the @choctawnationOK 2025 #TrailOfTearsBikeTeam🚴 As the first Irish rider to join the team, he reflects on the 500 mile journey and how the Choctaw-Irish bond continues.

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Thank you! Pleased to share the research. Keep an eye out for future events...

Looking forward to reading this series!

Keep an eye out for a special piece on #Choctaw #Irish mutual aid by our Postdoctoral Researcher, Dr Shelley Angelie Saggar.

And they’re off! Dr Padraig Kirwan gives us an insight into his first few days riding with the Choctaw Nation’s 2025 Trail of Tears Bike Team.

Thunderstorms, early starts and hopeful historical reflections... @padraigkirwan.bsky.social tells us about his first few days on the 2025 #TrailOfTears bike team.

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Good luck to @padraigkirwan.bsky.social who begins his travels today!

Donate to Honouring Choctaw & Irish Ancestors (Official Team Cycle), organized by Padraig Kirwan The remarkable and ongoing connection between the citizens of… Padraig Kirwan needs your support for Honouring Choctaw & Irish Ancestors (Official Team Cycle)

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