93. Truth-Telling and Restorative Justice: The Myth of the First Thanksgiving, with Lenore Three Stars and Robbie Paul

Every culture has core stories - mythologies that have everything to do with group identity. Sometimes those stories are connected to national holidays, as in the case of the American holiday called Thanksgiving. But who gets to determine what those core stories should be? In this episode we welcome two wise women who have made it their life’s work to serve as truth-tellers, and advocates for the stories of Native peoples that are seldom heard. Lenore Three Stars of the Oglala Sioux Band of the Lakota Nation, and Robbie Paul of the Nez Perce People, are here to help us to understand the importance of knowing, telling, and listening to each other’s stories--in ways that bring healing and restoration. 

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Lenore Three Stars 

• Oglala Sioux 
• Website 

Robbie Paul 

• Nez Perce Nation 
• Founding director of Native American Health Sciences at WSU Spokane
• Oregon Health Sciences University
• Nez Perce Appaloosa Horse Club
• LinkedIn 

Mentions:
National Museum of the American Indian
American Indian Perspectives on Thanksgiving
More resources about Thanksgiving: x, x, x, x, x
Doctrine of Discovery
Indian Removal Act
Nez Perce War
Standing Rock
Cheyenne River Agency
Pine Ridge
Little Bighorn
Manifest Destiny
Ghost Dance Religion and Wounded Knee Massacre
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Keywords: revisionist history, epigenetics, intergenerational trauma, Native boarding schools, residential schools, dec

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