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Native America Calling: The death of Captain Cook
Tuesday, February 14, 2023
The death of Captain Cook
Eighteenth Century British explorer James Cook is revered for his drive and seamanship from Tonga and the South Pacific to the Bering Strait.
Cook put more than 120 English place names on the map from Mount Edgecombe in Alaska to the Bay of Plenty in New Zealand. That doesn’t count the many places named after him.
But Cook’s colonial exploits were often at odds with the Indigenous peoples of the places he visited, culminating in his death at the hands of Native Hawaiians on this date in 1779.
Today on Native America Calling, we examine his complicated legacy.
Guests on Native America Calling
Dr. Keanu Sai (Hawaiian subject), political scientist
Benjamin Jacuk (Dena’ina, Athabaskan, and Sugpiaq), researcher at the Alaska Native Heritage Center
Melissa Shaginoff, artist and curator
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