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On this last episode, we look back on 23 years of joyous, difficult and always informative conversation.
2014 Monacan Nation Powwow
What does Thanksgiving mean to local native people? Is it a time for celebration or a somber remembrance of the past?
We’ll hear the perspectives of two experts at Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian.
Plus, the oldest history of this land belongs to native people. So why isn’t that history taught in schools?
In “Monacan Millenium,” an anthropology professor chronicles the story of the Monacan Nation in Virginia, today more than 2,000 strong.
Produced by Julie Depenbrock
Guests
- Jeffrey Hantman Professor of Anthropology, University of Virginia; Author, "Monacan Millenium"
- Dennis Zotigh Writer and Cultural Specialist, National Museum of the American Indian
- Renée Gokey Education Specialist, National Museum of the American Indian
Excerpt from "Monacan Millenium"
The history of European colonial expansion following the late fifteenth century is riddled with a multitude of curious and seemingly inexplicable encounters between indigenous people and European colonists. One of these would be the encounter between Chief Powhatan, a paramount chief ruling over some thirty-two Algonquian polities in the Virginia Coastal Plain, and the English colonists he allowed to stay at Jamestown in 1607. This story has puzzled historians and anthropologists alike for decades, and it is that puzzle that initially prompted this book. The Powhatans could have easily destroyed the Jamestown colony on first sight through military means, as with an earlier Spanish colony (Lewis and Loomie 1953) in the Chesapeake. Or they could have ignored the colony and through such disinterest permitted the starvation, death, or disappearance of the colonists as at the Roanoke colony of 1588 (Lawler 2015).
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