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🗓️ 24 November 2021
⏱️ 60 minutes
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0:00.0 | Welcome to Getting Curious, I'm Jonathan Vaness, and every week I sit down for a gorgeous |
0:04.3 | conversation with a brilliant expert to learn all about something that makes me curious. |
0:09.3 | On today's episode, I'm joined by Professor Margaret Hiddl, where I ask her, what's the |
0:13.6 | real story of the Oregon Trail? |
0:15.9 | Welcome to Getting Curious as Jonathan Vaness, I'm so excited for today's episode, it is |
0:22.3 | major, I've been curious at this for a really long time, but like everything else that I've |
0:27.0 | been curious how since the 90s I've learned a lot more of like a full intersectional picture of it. |
0:31.4 | So without any further ado, welcome to the show Margaret Hiddl, who is a scholar of Native American |
0:37.0 | history in North American West's at University of Nebraska-Lincoln, her research examines Indigenous |
0:42.6 | sovereignty and settler colonization in a transnational context. Welcome Margaret, how are you? |
0:50.2 | I am doing just fine, I'm excited to be here. |
0:54.3 | I came on to the idea of the Oregon Trail through the seminal computer game in the 90s, |
1:02.0 | playing it with my little brothers when I was like six and seven, and really not understanding |
1:08.4 | like the full complexity of, and obviously not at six, but at no point did I learn the complexity |
1:13.2 | of that through school. So didn't realize until I was about like 24 or 25 that I didn't fully |
1:19.4 | maybe have the entire story. So can you just define for us what was the Oregon Trail? Like is it a |
1:26.8 | literal trail? Where did it start? Where did it end? Just so we can all get on the same page. |
1:33.0 | Yeah, so the Oregon Trail is a literal trail, and it's one of a couple of major travel routes |
1:40.2 | that went from east to west and that helped the United States achieve its goals of colonizing |
1:45.4 | North America. The others, the other big ones are the California Trail and the Santa Fe Trail, |
1:52.4 | and they all actually started out originally as networks of indigenous roads and trails that are |
1:58.5 | hundreds of years old and that the United States, Britain, France, Spain, they became familiar with |
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