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://americanindian.si.edu/nk360/informational/rethinking-thanksgiving
https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2020/p0819-covid-19-impact-american-indian-alaska-native.html
https://mashpeewampanoagtribe-nsn.gov/
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