No Thanks(giving)

Cheat!

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True Crime, Tv & Film, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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One of America’s earliest cheats has evolved into the sugar-coated story of Thanksgiving that many of us know today. In this episode, we revisit the story of how English colonists cheated Native Americans out of their land. Alzo speaks to author David J Silverman and Wampanoag member Kisha James to find out what really happened when the English arrived in America, and the result of their cheat today. Go to cheatpodcast.com to fill out our listener survey and tell us what you want to hear on the show! A Somethin’ Else production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Some fit us.
0:09.0	Ladies and gentlemen, children and pets, gather round, gather round.
0:13.5	It's time to hear the story of Thanksgiving.
0:17.7	A long time ago, in 1620, a group of people called the pilgrims left England in search
0:23.7	of a place where they could worship God as they pleased.
0:28.0	About a hundred of these pilgrims boarded a big ship called the Mayflower.
0:31.9	The men, women and children were excited to reach their new home.
0:36.8	It was a hard journey, but eventually they arrived in America where they met some quote
0:42.2	unquote Indians.
0:45.8	These folks were very friendly and helped the pilgrims survive in their strange new land
0:50.4	by teaching them how to fish and plant vegetables.
0:55.3	It's been one day to celebrate the English invited their neighbors, the Indians, to a big
1:01.8	Thanksgiving meal.
1:04.1	And now, every year, we sit down for a big Thanksgiving meal ourselves to commemorate
1:09.9	that wonderful day.
1:13.3	Ladies and gentlemen, what I just said is a bunch of bullshit.
1:18.1	I think the myth of peaceful coexistence is one of the most problematic aspects.
1:24.8	This is Keisha James.
1:26.2	The Thanksgiving story is based on our ancestors, the Wampanoag people.
1:30.7	But the true story is a little bit different from the legend.
1:34.7	It absolves the pilgrims of what they did to my ancestors, and the fact that children
1:39.7	are indoctrinated into it at a very early age is incredibly insidious.
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