Ep 52: Five Deer

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Trigger warning: Today's episode discusses genocide, the dark truth behind America's most gluttonous holiday.  Why you should be eating eel and deer instead of turkey and potatoes on Thursday,  and how writers of the 1800's completely SQUAWKED up how we learn about Thanksgiving today.  And we learn what they didn't teach you in school about the first feast. Buckle in, it's a rollercoaster. 

Resources: 

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-was-on-the-menu-at-the-first-thanksgiving-511554/

https://www.onthisday.com/events/date/1621

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving_dinner

https://time.com/4577425/thanksgiving-2016-true-story/

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sarah-Josepha-Hale

https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/08/book-review-lady-editor-literary-lady-complicated-proto-feminist/

https://americanindian.si.edu/nk360/informational/rethinking-thanksgiving

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/05/the-impact-of-covid-19-on-native-american-communities/

https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2020/p0819-covid-19-impact-american-indian-alaska-native.html

https://ktla.com/news/nationworld/thousands-of-homicides-disappearances-of-indigenous-women-remain-unsolved-many-in-same-state-where-gabby-petitos-body-was-found/

https://mashpeewampanoagtribe-nsn.gov/ 

https://native-land.ca/

https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2020/11/25/native-americans-thanksgiving-mourning

Links as always are in the description of today's episode

Intro Music is “Tiptoe out the back” by Dan Lebowicz and Interstitial music is by MK2. Additional music provided by Pixabay and Freesound.org
 

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