Re-Post - This Land is Their Land w/ David Silverman

American Prestige

Daniel Bessner & Derek Davison

History, Politics, News

4.8 • 705 Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Danny and Derek welcome David Silverman, professor of Native American, Colonial American, and American racial history at George Washington University, for a discussion of the historical Thanksgiving holiday. They get into the origin and proliferation of the holiday’s myth, the historical Pilgrims and Plymouth Colony, the Wampanoag Indians, their culture, politics, and relationship with the English settlers, who and what the holiday serves in modern America, and more. Be sure to grab a copy of David’s book This Land Is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving! Originally published November 22, 2022 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to American Prestige. To listen ad-free, you can subscribe at Americanprostagepod.com. Find the link in our show notes.
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0:34.8	Head to vanta.com slash Spotify to learn more. Hello, Prestige heads, and welcome to the special holiday Thanksgiving episode of American Prestige.
1:07.6	I'm Danny Bessner, here as always with my friend and comrade Derek Davidson,
1:12.2	and we are excited to welcome to the podcast, Professor David Silverman. David is a historian at
1:18.4	George Washington University and also the author most recently of this land is their land.
1:24.7	The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the troubled history of Thanksgiving.
1:29.6	And David, please correct my pronunciation if it was wrong. And thank you to the show.
1:33.8	Thanks for having me, and your pronunciation was just fine. Oh, excellent. Well, thank you so much for
1:38.4	coming to the show. So that is a first in the history of America. We try, but we often fail. That's basically our motto.
1:47.3	So, David, why don't we just get to the impulse behind this book? Why did you feel that you needed
1:53.6	to write this book about Thanksgiving? What are the major problems with how Americans either
1:57.6	understand or celebrate or whatever with Thanksgiving that impelled
2:01.5	you to write this book?
2:02.9	Well, there are two reasons I decided to write the book.
2:05.5	One is that I've been conducting research on Native American history for the better part of 20
2:11.0	years.
2:11.8	And my first book project, many years ago, focused on the Wampanog people of the island Martha's Vineyard,
2:18.6	this a federally recognized reservation there of Wampanog people in the town of
2:24.9	Gayhead or Aquina at the far corner of the island.
2:29.3	And in the process of doing my research, I reached out to modern-day Wampanag people just to get
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