Jeremy Kingsbury

Teaching Assistant Professor, History & American Indian St
- Indigenous Gender and Sexuality, Fur Trade, Ojibwe Language, Bagpipe History

Contact Info

Email: jeremy.kingsbury@UND.edu
Office: 701.777.3681

Office Address

O'Kelly Hall Room 208
221 Centennial Drive Stop 8096
Grand Forks, ND 58202-8096

Biography

Jeremy Kingsbury earned his PhD in History from the University of Iowa in 2022. His dissertation, Ozaawindib’s World: Ojibwe Family, Gender, Warfare and Politics: 1748-1826 explores Ojibwe history while keeping Ozaawindib, a naagokwe or Two-Spirit person, and her family as a lens for interpreting the changes Ojibwe people experienced in her lifetime. Jeremy's research interests are in Ojibwe, fur trade and Scottish history. A study of the fur trade led to his wider interest in the Atlantic World and ultimately China and India as well.

Although he is a settler, he received his bachelor's degree in Ojibwe language and American Indian Studies from Bemidji State University in 2006. Ojibwe language is an important component in his reseach and teaching. Jeremy has on a few occasions taught or facilitated community language classes or tables on the Grand Portage Ojibwe Reservation and for the White Earth Band of Ojibwe. He also hosts an Ojibwe language learning Podcast, Ojibwemodaa, Let's Speak Ojibwe, which explores one Ojibwe conjugation per episode.

For fourteen years Jeremy worked as a park guide for Grand Portage National Monument where he constructed wigwams and birch bark canoes as part of an eighteenth-century Ojibwe village exhibit. At Grand Portage Jeremy also gave regular bapipe concerts. He has hosted a bagpipe podcast since 2006, Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History Podcast, which explores the likely repertoire of eighteenth and early nineteenth century bagpipers.

Jeremy has volunteered or worked at several fur trade living history sites in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Ontario and Manitoba as well as presented his research on fur trade history for the Stromness Historical Society on the Orkney Islands, Scotland in 2019.

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HIST 103 American History to 1877, HIST 104 American History Since 1877, HIST 106 World History II 1000CE to the Present, HIST 362 Modern China,

IS 121 Introduction to American Indian Studies, IS 205 History of the Ojibwe, IS 346 Indigenous Gender and Sexuality, (And forthcoming classes Ojibwe Language I & II, Indigenous People in the World, Indigenous Fur Trade and the Environment)

Ojibwe History, Indigenous Gender and Sexuality, Fur Trade, Scottish, Irish and English Music, Public History, Podcasting

Ojibwe Language Table for White Earth Tribal College, Facilitator summer 2021
“A Horse for What Ails You” The Voyageur Journal 43 no. 2 (winter 2020 newsletter).
“Many thanks for your country dance book’ -John Askin: A Concert and chat about John Askin’s Borrowed Book” Livestream Presentation for North American Voyageur Council, November 1, 2020
“Bagpipes and the North West Company” Livestream Presentation for Wetootwaag’s Bagpipe and History Podcast August 8, 2020
“Compensation & Equipment of the NWC Voyageurs” The Voyageur Journal 43 no.1 (summer newsletter)
Wetootwaag’s Bagpipe and History Podcast Host and Creator of Weekly Podcast, Starting April, 2020
“Navigating the Records of the Hudson’s Bay Company Online” The Voyageur Journal 42 no. 4 (winter 2019 newsletter)
“James Hallowell, North West Company Super Cargo to China” The Voyageur Journal 42 no. 3 (fall 2019 newsletter)
“Ozaawinidiban Gii-Ikwewaadizi” The Voyageur Journal 42 no. 2 (summer 2019 newsletter)
“Bateaux versus the Birch Bark Canoe: Orcadians, Highlanders, French Canadians and the Contest for the Ojibwe Fur Trade” Presentation, Orkney Islands, Scotland: May 2019.
“Fur Trade Post Constructions and North West Company Neighbors: James Sutherland and Mr. La Tour at Portage De I’Isle” The Voyageur Journal 42 no. 1 (spring 2019 newsletter)
“A Winter Entry from Duncan McGillivray’s Fort George Journal: 1794-1795” The Voyageur Journal 41 no. 4 (winter 2019 newsletter)
“A Digital Comparison of Two Trading Posts on the Red River 1797-1798.” Paper: North American Voyageur Council Gathering. Winnipeg, Manitoba, 2017
“Ozaawindibiban Gii-Ikwewaadizi: Ozaawindib Lived as a Woman.” Paper Ethnohistory Annual Meeting. Las Vegas, Nevada, 2015
“Ojibwemodaa: Let’s Speak Ojibwe” Grand Portage National Monument Guide 2013
“Wezhibii’iged Ojibwemowin: Writing the Ojibwe Language” Grand Portage National Monument Guide 2013
“Colonial Meets Digital: Game Review” Journal of the Early Americas 3 no. 2 (March/April 2013)
“Scottish Roots of the North West Company” Presentation for Festival du Voyageur, Winnipeg Manitoba February 2013
“Anishinaabe Ininiwag: An Overview of Ojibwe Men’s roles during the Fur Trade” Presentation for North West Company Fur Post. Pine City, MN June 2012
“‘That don’t help me when I am in want of it:’ Workplace Stresses at Osnaburg House 1800-1801,” Journal of the Early Americas 2 no. 3 (June/July 2012)
“Name Wadakani: The Horned Sturgeon.” Oshkaabewis Native Journal 8 no. 1 (Spring 2011)
“Ojibwe Giiyosewin Mewinzha: The Ojibwe Way of Hunting Long Ago.” Journal of the Early Americas 1 no. 5 (October/November 2011)
“Fur Traders on Facebook” Grand Portage National Monument Guide 2010