FUFT Pod S3E6 - This Land is Their Land

Hello, 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:
  • https://indiancountrytoday.com/newscasts/steven-peters-11-04-2021
  • https://indiancountrytoday.com/archive/6-thanksgiving-myths-share-them-with-someone-you-know
  • https://indiancountrytoday.com/archive/the-wampanoag-side-of-the-first-thanksgiving-story
• 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