On this episode of Our American Stories, Dr. Mary Stockwell, author of Interrupted Odyssey: Ulysses S. Grant  and the American Indians, tells the story of how the lives of America's first Native American appointed to a cabinet level position and our 18th President intertwined. Listener Paul Kotz shares about his service trip to Mayfield, Kentucky several months after a tornado devastated the town. 

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Time Codes:

00:00 - The Interrupted Odyssey of US Grant and Ely Parker 

35:00 - Visiting a Devastated Town After a Tornado... and Lending a Hand