Ep 13: Jews Talk Thanksgiving, Part 2

In this second Thanksgiving episode, April and Tracie dig in to the unpleasant truths behind the myths of Thanksgiving. April recounts some of the deep sadness and loss she feels around missing knowledge and culture from her Native ancestors, while Tracie reflects on the holes in her education around the oppression of Native people.

Content warning: we discuss the genocide and oppression of Native American people, as well as rape and sex slavery in the context of American history.

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The Native people at the first Thanksgiving were Wampanoag. Read more from historian David J. Silverman about other details your elementary school left out or got wrong.
Learn more about native land acknowledgement.
To find the names of the peoples whose ancestral land you inhabit, check out Native-land.ca.
Tracie inhabits Susquehannock land.