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THE POLITICS OF THANKSGIVING<br>
What are the origins of the Thanksgiving holiday in the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region>? Some
Americans commemorate <br>
a harvest feast celebrated in 1621 at <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Plymouth</st1:place></st1:City>
between the Wampanoag and the Pilgrims. <br>
Then, there is the 1637 proclamation by Massachusetts Governor John Winthrop,
who claimed <br>
the first official "a Day of Thanksgiving" to celebrate the
colonists who massacred the<br>
Pequots at Mystic, <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Connecticut</st1:place></st1:State>.
These are two very different occasions, one an indigenous<br>
feast, and the other a white settler celebration of a genocidal
campaign. How are these<br>
different narratives alternately celebrated and erased? How was the creation of
Thanksgiving<br>
as a national holiday a way of solidifying American national identity? This
show explores the <br>
politics of Thanksgiving with interviews that provide two very different
perspectives. Join your<br>
host, Dr. J. Kehaulani Kauanui, and guests, Ramona Nosapocket Peters
(Mashpee <br>
Wampanoag), cultural worker and artist, and Moonanum James (Aquinnah
Wampanoag), <br>
co-leader of the United American Indians of New England, who hosts an annual
"National Day<br>
of Mourning," on Cole Hill, MA, as an alternative.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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