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American History Tellers

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Kids & Family, Education For Kids, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 19K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2018

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

It’s 1786. For two years the city of Philadelphia has been celebrating its independence. For citizens of this brand new country, life is parties, meetings, debates and festivals - sometimes all blended together. But it wasn’t fun and games for everyone. Even before the war, American distrusted both the natives and the British. While Native American tribes weren’t a ‘side’ in the Revolutionary War, the politics and broken promises of the Colonies locked Indians, British and American forces alike in battle.

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime Members, you can listen to American History Tellers add free on Amazon Music,
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0:13.6	Imagine you and 2,000 other people are gathered on the streets of Philadelphia.
0:18.3	The year is 1786.
0:20.8	The Revolutionary War is over.
0:23.1	The city has been in a continual state of excitement for two and a half years.
0:27.7	Ever since the signing of the Treaty of Paris, which gave America its independence from
0:32.1	Great Britain, you are no longer subjects, you are now citizens of a new nation and are
0:38.2	trying to figure out exactly what that means.
0:41.2	Parties, meetings, debates and festivals have all blended into another.
0:45.6	Today's event is the Festival of St. Taminin.
0:48.9	It commemorates the meeting a century before between William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania,
0:54.1	and an Indian chief named Taminin.
0:56.9	Along with the other Mary-makers, you are dressed as an Indian or your idea of an Indian.
1:01.9	You have some feathers in your hair and you've streaked your face with paint.
1:05.3	You and the others are now gathered around a vast, teepee-like structure that you've
1:08.9	constructed on the shores of the Scook Hill River.
1:11.9	Suddenly, a man to your left puts his arm out in front of you, blocking you from moving
1:15.4	forward.
1:16.4	Hey, what are you doing?
1:17.4	Be quiet, look!
1:18.4	He points to six real Indians walking directly towards you.
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