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PREVIEW: From a much longer conversation later tonight with author Leila Philip: the legend of the Great Beaver.

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

Society & Culture, Arts, News, Books

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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PREVIEW: From a much longer conversation later tonight with author Leila Philip: the legend of the Great Beaver.

1899 Washington DC

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0:00.0

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0:09.0

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0:13.2

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0:14.8

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0:17.2

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0:19.8

Azda.

0:20.8

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0:26.0

asder.com slash independent tests from May 2023.

0:30.0

This is John Bachelor.

0:31.0

Conversation with the author and teacher Lila Philip.

0:34.5

Her new book is Beaverland, how one weird rodent made America.

0:39.2

Lila does us the favor of telling the legend of the Great Beaver told again and again by the Algonquin

0:47.6

the Great Beaver and his battle with the shape changer that formed the North American Lakes and Sikh coast.

0:56.7

And eventually, because they battled the Great Lakes, here's Lila Philip telling one version of the Great Beaver, the one that created North America.

1:08.0

Four beavers.

1:11.0

And also, it's a really wonderful story. So in summary, in the story of Great Beaver that I opened the book with,

1:18.0

Kitzi Amasqua is a somewhat mischievous beaver here in the Connecticut Valley and he hoards too much water and he floods the valley

1:26.7

creating the river that becomes the Connecticut Valley and Obamakwa, the Schaefer, has to discipline him and chases him all up and down the

1:36.9

Atlantic seaboard.

1:38.5

And therefore it forms of much of the geologic features, waterfalls, rivers, valleys, etc.

1:46.0

Lakes that have been identified from, you know, Georgia up through Canada.

1:53.0

So the Algonquin peoples who lived up and down

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