Who Were the Real Savages?

Quiet Canines Podcast · Oct 13, 2026 · 2m

Did you know that in 1578, Martin Frobisher held the first recorded Thanksgiving in Canada? There are many stories celebrating European explorers, like Christopher Columbus and Frobisher, who travelled west across the Atlantic to discover America. But there were also thousands of Indigenous Americans who travelled in the opposite direction and discovered Europe.

In 1576, Martin Frobisher, an English privateer who was previously a pirate, was searching for a north west passage to the Pacific. He kidnapped an Inuk man from Baffin Island. During the struggle, the man bit his tongue in half. He…