How can we heal and rethink Thanksgiving and the historical trauma associated with it.

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November 17, 2023
Thanksgiving and Historical Truama

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Should America Keep Celebrating Thanksgiving? ([link removed])

The Nation

Sean Sherman argues that we need to decolonize Thanksgiving, while Chase Iron Eyes calls for replacing Thanksgiving with a “Truthsgiving.”

These Native Americans focus on family amid Thanksgiving’s dark history ([link removed])

The Washington Post

For centuries, Thanksgiving has been billed as an opportunity for friends and family to gather, with peace and gratitude in their hearts. But for Native Americans, celebrating the autumnal holiday isn’t as simple.

The Myths of the Thanksgiving Story and the Lasting Damage They Imbue ([link removed])

Smithsonian Magazine

In truth, massacres, disease and American Indian tribal politics are what shaped the Pilgrim-Indian alliance at the root of the holiday

A family learns to tell a new kind of Thanksgiving story ([link removed])

Los Angeles Times

It’s hard to say when or how it started, but a few years ago my husband and I quit celebrating Thanksgiving.

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