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Episode 19: Thanksgiving and Rebecca the Raccoon


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In this episode I suggest we’ve got more work to do to complicate the myth of thanksgiving and center the lives and agency of indigenous people. I also discuss how the holiday has become an American tradition aided by gifts to American presidents. One of those strange gifts, intended to be a part of the thanksgiving meal, became a beloved presidential pet.



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Let me put my Historian Hat onBy Andrew McGregor