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Hello, and welcome to Ben Franklin's World Revisited, a series of classic episodes that bring fresh perspective to our latest episodes

and had deeper connections to our understanding of early American history.

And I'm your host, Liz Kovart.

It's November, the time of year when we Americans get ready for the Thanksgiving holiday.

Now, although the federal holiday that we know in honor today

came about in 1863, when Sarah Joseph A. Hale petition President Abraham Lincoln to issue a

proclamation declaring a day of Thanksgiving in honor of the Civil War soldiers, the day we

celebrate as Thanksgiving today is a holiday that we modern-day Americans associate with the

indigenous peoples and religious separatists

of Plymouth, Massachusetts. So what do we know about the indigenous people that the so-called pilgrims

interacted with? This month, in between our new episodes about indigenous history, the Ben Franklin's

World Revisited series will explore the World of the Wampanog.

The World of the Wampanog originally posted

as a two-episode miniseries in December 2020.

This first episode will introduce you

to the life, societies, and cultures

of the Wampanog and Narragansett peoples.

These are the peoples the Plymouth colonists

interacted with after the colonists arrived in the area in December 1620.

Now, the second episode, which will post after episode 398, will help us understand how the world of the Wampanog changed and stayed the same after the religious separatists arrived at Plymouth.

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