NATIONAL DAY OF MOURNING
Since 1970, Indigenous people & their allies have gathered at noon on Cole’s Hill in Plymouth to commemorate a National Day of Mourning on the US Thanksgiving holiday.
Dispel the Myths of Thanksgiving
Q1)
WHO INVENTED THANKSGIVING?
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Q2) DID PILGRIMS AND INDIANS LIKE EACH OTHER?
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Q3) DID THE MEAL PICTURED IN THANKSGIVING PAINTINGS EVER
HAPPEN?
Essayist: Why I Don’t Celebrate Thanksgiving
I have been taught to give thanks every day, not just on the one day of the year that other people say we should be the most grateful.
I myself don’t celebrate the day called Thanksgiving. For me, what we are celebrating is the arrival of colonialism.
This tribe helped the Pilgrims survive for their first Thanksgiving.
They still regret it 400 years later.
Long marginalized and misrepresented in the American story, the Wampanoags are braced for what’s coming this month as the country marks the 400th anniversary of the first Thanksgiving between the Pilgrims and Indians.
History Matters: Murder of Natives by Myles Standish
Following the captain’s “terrifying whirlwind of violence,” Philbrick writes that Standish carried the head of Wituwamat back to New Plymouth. His soldiers were “received with joy.” Hailed as a hero, Standish mounted the severed head of the Indian warrior on a pole and displayed it on the roof of the fort.
American Indian Perspectives on Thanksgiving
“FOR TEACHERS GRADES 4–8
A PDF that can help tell the real story.
“Environment: Understanding the Natural World
The Wampanoag people have long lived in the area around Cape Cod, in present-day Massachusetts.
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