Lies Your Teacher Taught You: The Truth About Thanksgiving

All My Relations Podcast

Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane

Native, Documentary, Pop Culture, Contemporary Native American Culture, Relationships, Society, Indigenous, Native American, Society & Culture

4.9 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2021

⏱️ 20 minutes

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“The Truth about Thanksgiving” is the first installment of a series we’re calling “Lies your teacher taught you”. In this episode we sit down with Matika and her 13-year-old nephew to teach about the true history of European and Native contact. As this episode is with a new teenager, we wanted to show that this is not a hard conversation to have, and most people do not want to be lied to - which is what rehashing the myth does. Ultimately, it stems from a limited perspective of history. The T...

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0:00.0	Hello, hello, hello relatives.
0:04.1	Happy day of morning.
0:05.8	Happy Thanksgiving.
0:07.0	Ha, ha, ha.
0:08.7	Matika here with the All My Relations podcast
0:12.0	and what an honor it is to be able to continue
0:15.7	talking with you all and sharing space with y'all.
0:18.6	So the other day I was talking with my nephew.
0:21.8	And he's in middle school.
0:23.1	He's in seventh grade.
0:25.0	And you know, he's at that really good age
0:27.8	where he's just entering into being a teenager.
0:31.2	And you know, he had come to one of my lectures.
0:34.5	And he was like, you know, auntie,
0:37.2	my teacher told me on Columbus Day
0:42.1	that Christopher Columbus discovered America.
0:44.8	Ha, ha, ha.
0:46.8	And I was like, really?
0:49.6	And he said, and I didn't know what to do.
0:51.5	He was like, so should I didn't know if I should like stand up
0:56.0	or like raise my hand and say, well, you know,
0:59.4	how could he have discovered America?
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