In this episode, we celebrate Thanksgiving by taking time to talk about indigenous characters and creators in pop culture. We also take some time to do some thanksgiving updates, give a list of popular thanksgiving desserts and of course mention what we are thankful for.
00:00 James introduces the show but before they start talking about the topic they do some Thanksgiving updates and talk about the top desserts for Thanksgiving.
8:11 Chris gives a land acknowledgement and talks about why we are talking about indigenous characters and creators in pop culture.
12:05 We start to highlight indigenous characters starting with Echo
21:00 we move on to Joe's first spotlight, the character Tonto from the original Lone Ranger TV series.
26:14 James spotlights the movie Prey and the lead character Naru.
29:26 Chris spotlights the graphic novel "A Girl Named Echo"
33:06 Joe's next spotlight is Wyatt Wingfoot.
37:08 James spotlight Danielle Moonstar AKA Mirage of the New Mutants
40:28 Tye Longshadow from Young Justice, leading a quick discussion about Young Justice.
43:20 Joe gives us his next spotlight Thomas Kalmaku
45:37 James spotlights X-Men and X-Force member Warpath.
47:42 Chris changes gears and spotlight 'The Thanksgiving Play" by Larrisa Fasthorse
50:02 Joe gives his last spotlight Dawnstar of The Legion of Superheroes.
53:02 James spotlights the show Reservation Dogs" We then go off on a tangent about the Ryan Reynolds Green Lantern Movie.
1:00:25 Chris talks about having to look for more options and intentionally looking for indigenious characters and creators. Leading into Joe's final spotlight Ohiyesafrom DC's old west comics.
1:03:10 James wraps up talking about Elisa Maza from Gargoyles, Spirit from G.I. Joe and the Spider-man villain Puma.
1:06:00 We move into the recommendation section of the podcast.
1;13:10 We end on being thankful.
