For those who live in the United States, you most certainly were told of a happy event that happened in the 17th century, where the Pilgrims and the Natives all sat down and had a jolly, old Thanksgiving meal together. Interesting idea, but as we grow older and gather more information on just how terrible the Europeans treated the Natives when they came to the Americas, it seems more like this reality is a sugar-coated one that we have built in our heads. The truth is that the unwashed, disease-ridden Europeans came to America, took over the lands and proceeded to wipe out hundreds of thousands of Natives in a multitude of ways.
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The background music of this episode is “Background Scan Master” by John Bartmann (Free Music Archive)(CC0 1.0) https://tinyurl.com/backgroundscanJB
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