Re: [Goanet] The Indian Bird on the American Thanksgiving Table (Scroll.in, 26/11/2020)

On Thursday, November 26, 2020, 01:56:12 a.m. CST, V M wrote: https://scroll.in/article/979490/thanksgiving-day-how-an-indian-bird-made-its-way-to-the-american-dinner-table Jehangir writes with great fascination and glee, “One of the animals was larger in body than a peahen and

[Goanet] The Indian Bird on the American Thanksgiving Table (Scroll.in, 26/11/2020)

https://scroll.in/article/979490/thanksgiving-day-how-an-indian-bird-made-its-way-to-the-american-dinner-table Of all the epic nomenclature failures in the history of “the New World” – think Columbus’s blithe dubbing of the Lucayan, Taíno, and Arawak peoples he confronted in 1492 as “Indians” –