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FUFT Pod S3E6 - This Land is Their Land
🕑 Added 2022-11-22 11:00:06 +0000 UTCHello, Fucked Up Fairy Fans!
Today's post is equal parts historical record and folktales.
It is also another episode that gets particularly adult. (Boy there's been a lot of that this season. Something for me to work out in therapy. :-P)
Special thanks to Matt G (aka @MattHatterPlays, aka "The Indigenous Folklorist" - Hopi) for providing a sensitivity read.
Show notes:
FUFT Pod episodes are researched and written by Liz aka Cosbrarian
Content warnings: Frank discussion of the origins of Thanksgiving; an overview of the Pequot Massacre; the last tale could be read as having some squicky issues with consent? It’s so ridiculous it didn’t bother me, but I have the privilege of not having dealt with major trauma in regards to consent so I figured I’d throw it out there.
Musical arrangement of the “F’ed Up Fairy Tales” theme song is by Danny K. Bernstein.
Episode edited by Michael Charboneau.
Story sources:
- “Maushop the Giant”
- The Girl Who Helped Thunder and Other Native American Folktales, retold by Joseph Bruchac and James Bruchac
- Spirit of the New England Tribes: Indian History and Folklore, 1620 - 1984 collected and transcribed by William S. Simmons
- Granny Squannit and the Little People, via The Mohegan Tribe and the Simmons book.
- “Teeth in the Wrong Places” - Native American Myths and Legends collected by Pueblo anthropologist Alfonso Ortiz and activist Richard Erdoes
Maushop research:
- Wikipedia, Aquinnah, MA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquinnah,_Massachusetts
- Spirit of the New England Tribes: Indian History and Folklore, 1620 - 1984 collected and transcribed by William S. Simmons
Thanksgiving research:
- Indian Country Today:
- United American Indians of New England: “The Suppressed Speech of Wamsutta (Frank B.) James, Wampanoag. This was a speech that James was going to give at the 350th celebration of Plimoth Plantations - but when Plimoth saw the content of his speech, he was uninvited. http://www.uaine.org/suppressed_speech.htm
- “In 1621, the Wampanoag Tribe Had Its Own Agenda” via The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/11/thanksgiving-belongs-wampanoag-tribe/602422/
Pequot Massacre: This Land is Ours
Donations:
- Indian Country Today
- National Indian Education Association
- Pocasset Pokanoket Land Trust
- Native Land Digital
Post image: via the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation
Music (all sourced through Artlist.io):
- “Preserve in Community” by Sebastian Pangal
- “New Beginning” by Eldar Kedem
- “Mahluta” by Dialgo
