Last year we came to you with a bit of the history of the first American Thanksgiving. This year, we’re casting our net a bit wider. Join Averill and Sarah as they talk about the complicated history of corn, some insights into Haudenosaunee food culture, and some regional perspectives on Thanksgiving.
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Show Notes and Further Reading
Bachmann, Karen. “Canadian origin to Thanksgiving?” The Daily Press. October 11, 2015.
Warren, Nathan B. The Holidays: Christmas, Easter, and Whitsuntide; together with the May-day, Midsummer, and Harvest-Home Festivals. Troy, N.Y., H. B. Nims and Company: 1876.
Mann, Barbara Alice. George Washington’s War on Native America. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008).
Moss, Robert. “How Thanksgiving, ‘The Yankee Abolitionist Holiday,’ Won Over the South.”
Pleck, Elizabeth. “ The Making of the Domestic Occasion: The History of Thanksgiving in the United States.” Journal of Social History. 07/1999, Volume 32, Issue 4.
“Thanksgiving in Canada.” The Canadian Encyclopedia.
“The Harvest Home: An Old English Festival Akin to Thanksgiving.” New York Tribune. (Nov 27, 1895): 20.
Gandondagan Seneca Art & Culture Center
Freida Jacques explains the Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address
Text of a version of the Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address
Iroquois White Corn Project (Don’t forget to order some corn!)
Oren Lyons tells the story of The Peacemaker & The Tadadaho
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