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Trigger warning: Today's episode discusses genocide, the dark truth behind America's most gluttonous holiday.\\xa0 Why you should be eating eel and deer instead of turkey and potatoes on Thursday,\\xa0 and how writers of the 1800's completely SQUAWKED up how we learn about Thanksgiving today.\\xa0 And we learn what they didn't teach you in school about the first feast. Buckle in, it's a rollercoaster.\\xa0
Resources:\\xa0
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/\\xa0
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 \\u201cTiptoe out the back\\u201d by Dan Lebowicz and Interstitial music is by MK2. Additional music provided by Pixabay and Freesound.org
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Intro/Outtro music: Tiptoe Out The Back - Dan Liebowicz
Interstitial Music: MK2
Additional music: Freesound.com, Pixabay.org and HappySoulMusic.com
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