In 1763 twenty indigenous people in the colony of Pennsylvania were murdered
by an armed gang. The victims had been a peaceful group of Conestogas, who had
been wrongfully accused of aiding in violent raids against the settlers. The
infamous attack would go down in history as the Conestoga massacre. However,
almost immediately after the murders the meaning of the event became the
source of a fierce war in the press. The so-called "pamphlet war" saw two
competing groups trying to sell contrasting interpretations of the attack. The
perspective that was inevitably left out of these pamphlets, and the
"official" historical record, was the indigenous perspective. The new graphic
novel Ghost River: The Fall and Rise of Conestoga seeks to remedy that by
telling the story with the focus squarely on the Conestoga people. In this
episode Sebastian is joined by the creative team behind Ghost River, Weshoyot
Alvitre, Lee Francis IV, and Will Fenton, to discuss the graphic novel and how
fake news can become fake history. Tune in and find out how hand ground
paints, blood memory, and Ben Franklin's biggest political defeat all play a
role in the story.Read Ghost River for FREE here:
https://read.ghostriver.org/Thank you to our guests!Lee Francis 4 (Author):
https://redplanetbooksncomics.com/Weshoyot Alvitre (Illustrator):
https://www.weshoyot.com/Will Fenton (Editor):
https://www.willfenton.com/Ghost River: The Fall and Rise of the Conestoga is
part of Redrawing History: Indigenous Perspectives on Colonial America, a
project of the Library Company of Philadelphia supported by The Pew Center for
Arts & Heritage.
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