716: Trail of Tears
Update: 2020-09-06
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Description
For the holiday weekend, a roadtrip through history. In this moment when Americans are tearing down monuments and rethinking how to address the shameful parts of America’s past, we return to a story from the early days of our radio show that took that on, in a vivid and complicated way. Sarah Vowell and her twin sister Amy headed out on the road to retrace the Trail of Tears – the route their Cherokee ancestors took when expelled from their own land – and reflected on the question, what are we supposed to do with the mix of good and bad that is this country?
loved it. Really insightful, with great writing.
trigger warnings when calling a dark haired brown eyed person "injun", but none when calling a blonde haired blue eyes person "Swede"...stahp with this garbage.
Amazing episode. I'm really glad they did this re-run