Tag: Thanksgiving
American Mythic Origins, Thanksgiving, Mascots and the Oregon Trail
Over the last week I have taped at least two shows for the radio about my thoughts about Thanksgiving. Suddenly everyone wants to know what “Natives” think about…
Going Native
Bernard C Perley is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee where he teaches classes in Linguistic Anthropology, American Indian Studies, and Global Studies. H…
What really happened on Thanksgiving
(This is the second annual posting of a short, edited snippet of pages 55-66 of Charles Mann’s 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus. In it Mann describes the history of…
A Thanksgiving Story: How lice, a see through nighty and a turkey helped grow compassion
In which Bill Rich, our intrepid do-good principal takes PTA mothers into something of a bordello in order to deliver a Thanksgiving Turkey. The PTA mothers emerge better…