[nativestudies-l] Tuesday on "Indigenous Politics"

[jkauanui at wesleyan.edu]

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TUESDAYS from 4-5pm (EST)
"INDIGENOUS POLITICS: FROM NATIVE NEW ENGLAND AND BEYOND"
radio program on WESU (88.1 FM), Middletown, Connecticut, USA
with host J. Kehaulani Kauanui, Ph.D.
Listen online LIVE from the WESU website: www.wesufm.org

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



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