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The Great Dying: Shall Furnish Medicine Part 1

The Modern West
The Modern West
Episode • Sep 29, 2021 • 55m

For Native Americans, the story of pandemics started the moment European colonizers stepped foot off their ships. Savannah Maher's tribe the Mashpee Wampanoag experienced that first Great Dying. Arapaho and Shoshone descendant Taylar Stagner tells the history of how those diseases came West as a form of biological warfare.

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