The deadly roots of Thanksgiving

Whoops, I’m a few days late on this one.

Or just think of it as incredibly early for Turkey Day 2021.

Either way, this is an entry in my Bucket Nuggets series, which are short episodes about things like a great quote I came across, a fact I find interesting, or maybe just a weird thought I had recently.

Bucket as in “kicked the bucket,” a euphemism for death. And nugget as in a small bit of knowledge or wisdom. Not bucket nuggets as in, say, an obscene amount of McDonald’s McNuggets.

Speaking of food and death, though.

Today I’m taking a brief look at the roots of Thanksgiving—specifically, that most people have it completely wrong, and it was deadly and otherwise brutal for indigenous people in what would become the United States of America, according to David Silverman, a history professor at George Washington University and the author of This Land Is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving.

Sources: here (scroll down once you're there)

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