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How educators and parents are talking with kids about the real story of Thanksgiving
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Thanksgiving has always been implicated in national myth-making, ever since President Abraham Lincoln set aside the last Thursday in November 1863 to celebrate a feast that happened more than 200 years earlier. The country was in the middle of a ferocious civil war, and the president needed a better story to tell.
This year, fueled by a national outcry over racial injustice and building on decades of work by indigenous educators, teachers and parents across New England are aiming to reframe that story once again, focusing on the people who lived here long before the Europeans arrived. Drawing on Facebook conversations, apps created by indigenous-led organizations, and new history books, educators are trying to teach kids honestly about the conflict and violence rarely mentioned in cheery tales of the first Thanksgiving.
Read the full story at BostonGlobe.com.
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