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6 Things Every Non-Native Should Do On Thanksgiving Decolonized Thanksgiving, Native American Thanksgiving, Harvest Celebration, Breaking Bread, Workshop Ideas, Thanksgiving Quotes, Indigenous People, Relocation, Social Studies

"The antidote to feel-good history is not feel-bad history, but honest andinclusive history," sociologist James W. Loewen writes in "Lies My TeacherTold Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong."The feel-good history most of us have learned about Thanksgiving depictsgrateful Pilgrims breaking bread with Indigenous people. The honest, inclusivetruth is a lot more complicated than that. Indeed, so much of Indigenouspeoples' history is a footnote in textbooks: the forced…

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When my great, great grandmother Anna was just 16 years old, she and her sister said goodbye to their parents, their community, and their homeland, then boarded a boat in Norway destined for America. I wonder what she thought about on that journey across the sea at such a young age. Was she fearful, hopeful–both? … Continue reading Decolonizing Thanksgiving

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Many white Americans have been fed the same tale about Thanksgiving our whole lives - that it's a celebration of peace, survival, collaboration, perseverance, and adaptability. We were handed a story that is so alarmingly false that it could only benefit and sustain the interests of white colonialism & supremacy. I mean, let’s not dance around it anymore, right? Although Abraham Lincoln declared Thanksgiving a national holiday in 1863, he shouldn’t be considered an icon for Indigenous…

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