The Wild West 7: Uprising

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4.8 • 821 Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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With westward expansion came the Homestead Act. What followed was nothing short of horrific for the people already occupying the land.

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0:00.0	Hey folks, Aaron here. Just a heads up. This episode contains stories of violence and genocide
0:05.4	that might be hard for some to hear. Take care while listening.
0:14.8	Turkey, cranberries, stuffing, and pumpkin pie. It's the traditional Thanksgiving dinner for many Americans. It's a time
0:23.0	to gather and give thanks for all that we have. Ever since grade school, we've been taught that when
0:28.0	the Pilgrims arrived in America, the local Wampanoag tribe helped them survive in the new world.
0:33.7	To show their gratitude, the pilgrims invited their new friends to a feast in late November of 1621.
0:40.2	Historians still debate the origin of Thanksgiving, with some pointing to the Pequot War of 1637 as the first event.
0:48.3	See, the colonists feared that the native Pequot people would form an alliance with the nearby Narragansets and drive them into the sea.
0:55.2	According to the governor of Plymouth, a guy named William Bradford, armed soldiers
0:59.2	surrounded the Pequot village and set it on fire, calling the deaths a sweet sacrifice.
1:06.0	Governor Winthrop of the Massachusetts Bay Colony declared a day to celebrate.
1:10.5	Fast forward to the 1620s,
1:12.4	the English separatists, known as the Saints, ended up in Plymouth sometime in December.
1:17.4	Sick and low on supplies, their survival seemed bleak. They encountered the Wampanoag tribe,
1:22.9	who offered assistance in a show of compassion and peace. The two nations signed a treaty with both
1:28.4	sides promising to protect each other from enemies. The jurisdiction was sorted out later.
1:34.2	After losing nearly half their settlers in the first winter to sickness, the English teetered
1:39.1	on extinction. The Wampanoag also suffered, though. Europeans brought diseases, after all, killing 90% of the native
1:46.6	population. Still, Chief Massasoit represented 70 Wampanoic communities at the feast. Native Americans
1:53.7	and pilgrims celebrated with venison, wild fowl, cod, and recently harvested vegetables. But the
2:00.5	celebrations wouldn't last, for the Native
2:02.8	Americans across the land, oppression and persecution, were soon to come. I'm Aaron Mankey,
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