Thunderbirds and lightening, very very frightening ME! (Galileo, Galileo, Figaro).
Holly and Chelsea learn about thunderbirds, creatures that hold importance for indigenous peoples across North America. Chelsea pontificates on why she hates nineteenth-century ethnographies while Holly refuses to purchase a full text on Google Books.
Sources:
- Thunderbird (mythology) wikipedia
- Harry Potter Wiki- Thunderbird
- Thunderbird- American Gods wiki
- American Gods- Grace’s Literature Blog
- The Legend of the Thunderbirds- Pennsylvania Wilds
- Thunderbird Cryptid Wiki
- Book- The Exploits of Chief Aj: As Told to Chuck Vaughn- Google Books
- The Giant Thunderbird Returns- liveabout.com
- Did Giant Birds Roam the American Plains? HistoryDaily
- A flying creature has spooked the South Texas area for decades. Do you think they’re real? My San Antonio
- Monsterquest- Birdzilla IMDB
- Kettle Creek State Park- DCNR.PA.GOV
- Carrol, Al and William A. Starna. “Thunderbird Warriors, Injuneers, and the USNS Red Cloud: Native and Pseudo-Indian Images and Names in the Military,” Medicine Bags and Dog Tags: American Indian Veterans from Colonial Times to the Second Iraq War. UN Press, 20008.
- Peyote, Encyclopedia of World Religions, Encyclopedia Britannica, 2006.
- Cry of the Thunderbird: The American Indian’s Own Story, 1950.
- Senter, Philip J. “Pterosaur Thunderbird: The Origin of a Fake Native American Legend with an Anti-Evolution Agenda.” Skeptic Magazine, 24.2, 2019.
- Lenik, Edward J. “The Thunderbird Motif in Northeastern Indian Art.”
- Alex, Bridget. “Rulers of the Upper Realm, Thunderbirds are Powerful Native Spirits,” Audubon Magazine, Nov. 30, 2020.
- Milliner, Matthew J. “Christ and the Thunderbird: The creative resistance of Native American Christian art.” Christian Century, Dec. 15, 2021.
Music:
- Intro and outro: Underneath the Christmas Tree (Instrumental) by myuu http://www.thedarkpiano.com/ Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/q8fX3In7Qng
