You're listening to the First Name Basis podcast, episode 13, the untold story of Thanksgiving.

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It's November now, so many of us are gearing up to celebrate, I think what I read is America's second favorite holiday. Thanksgiving. Now, I wanted to make this episode because I think like

me, many of you grew up with a really romanticized version of what happened at the, and I'm doing air quotes

here, first Thanksgiving. A lot of us were taught that the pilgrims and the Native Americans

helped each other and everything was super lovely, and they were BFFs, and it was all kind of hunky dory and very sugary and some of us may have even

made construction paper hats and Native American costumes which were super inappropriate

and we know that now but were we ever really taught an updated version of what actually happened all those years

ago? I was reading this article and there was a story in it that I could relate to because I was

like, yeah, that sounds like what I learned when I was a kid. It was written by a man named Michael

Doris and he's native and the article's

called Why I'm Not Thankful for Thanksgiving. He tells a story where his son comes home with a paper

that he got from school and it's around Thanksgiving time and this is what it says. A year ago,

my older son brought home a program printed by a school.

On the second page was an illustration of the, air quotes again, first Thanksgiving.

With a caption which read in part, they served pumpkins and turkeys and corn and squash.

The Indians had never seen such a feast.

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