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Aaron Mahnke's Cabinet of Curiosities

Kid Icarus

Aaron Mahnke's Cabinet of Curiosities

iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild

History, Society & Culture

4.58.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2019

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

The line between humans and animals is on full display today in the Cabinet. We're just unsure which side of the line is more amazing.

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0:00.0

Our world is full of the unexplainable.

0:07.2

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display,

0:13.1

just waiting for us to explore.

0:16.2

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.

0:27.9

The kind sphere of the other is dangerous.

0:30.9

It has led to colonization and destruction, as well as the erasure of entire cultures,

0:36.4

all because differences were perceived as threats.

0:39.2

A people that looks different or lives outside what the dominant culture deems as acceptable

0:44.7

is suddenly put on the defense.

0:47.8

For example, Thanksgiving is taught as a unity story between two different groups coming

0:52.3

together to celebrate the harvest.

0:54.7

In reality, the Wampanoag tribe didn't trust the Puritans, who had come ready to negotiate

1:00.0

a protection treaty with the native people, in essence, a contract of mutually assured

1:05.5

destruction.

1:07.4

After all, the Puritans hadn't left England just for religious freedom.

1:11.4

They had also wanted to establish a theocracy, and if the Wampanoag had gotten in the way,

1:16.7

they would have been removed through violence by the Europeans.

1:21.1

Thousands of years later, another local population would also come under fire, just not how

1:26.2

they expected.

1:28.0

In 1855, a rash of robberies and kidnappings across the Midwest were being reported by

1:35.0

the Chokta tribe.

1:36.8

What had started out with the disappearance of livestock and crops quickly turned darker

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