Welcome to the history tricks, where any resemblance to a boring old history lesson is purely coincidental.

Hello and welcome to the show. It's Thanksgiving time in America. And here while I would say 97% of us are eating at least most of the same meal, Susan and I traditionally take a little break.

So Susan can make her turkey and I can make my cranberry sauce with booze in it because Chris

Graham, the chef, makes the turkey in our house. Traditionally, we bring you Pocahontas' episode from

2017 on this holiday weekend.

It is also National Native American Heritage Month here in the United States. In the

notes for the show, we'll put a link to the Bureau of Indian Affairs, a part of the United States

Department of the Interior.

They have information and things to do with kids for National Native American Heritage Month.

The theme this year is weaving together our past, present, and future.

And now, without further ado, on with the show.

A quick note due to a cascading series of technical difficulties, Susan has disappeared from the first section. We will rejoin her again in section two, but for the beginning,

it is only me. And here's your 30-second summary.

Once there was a story about an 11-year-old girl who saved the life of an explorer from her father's wrath. She did save the lives of his people,

but not the way you've been told. The end. Let's talk about Pocahontas, but first let's drop her into history. In 1607, Galileo invented an early version of the thermometer called the thermoscope, and he was deep into his studies of motion. Shakespeare's new plays, King Lear, and Macbeth, were both being performed except during the months between July and November, when the plague

closed all the theaters. China was in the Ming Dynasty. Philip III was King of Spain and Portugal.

Vasili the 4th was Tsar of Russia. Queen Elizabeth I had died four years earlier, but her nephew,

King James I, was still trying to fill her shoes. Former subjects,

Queen in Zinga and Artemisia Gentileski were both young women, and in 1607, three British ships

full of men, arrived to establish the North American Jamestown colony, and in doing so, would

propel a young Powhatan girl into history.

Matoica of the Powhatan people was born in 1595 or 1596 to the Powhatan High Chief,

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