NYTs: “The Thanksgiving Myth Gets a Deeper Look This Year”

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‘Thanksgiving:A Historical FAQ” 

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Native American Concert Friday in Bellingham, WA

This should be a good antidote to Thanksgiving. I’ve gone in past years and highly recommend it.

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Stephen Pevar on Thanksgiving and American Indian History

Here. An excerpt:

Every schoolchild is taught that the holiday of Thanksgiving commemorates the feast the Pilgrims arranged to thank the Indians for their friendship, for sharing their land, and for showing them how to grow, harvest, and store food. Accounts say that the generosity of the Indians saved the colonists from starvation during the harsh New England winter of 1620.

Very few schoolchildren are also taught, however, about the deprivations and atrocities that occurred to the Indians afterwards, first at the hands of the colonists and then by the United States government. Ironically, if the United States believes today that it has a poor immigration policy, imagine how self-destructive the Indians’ immigration policy was by welcoming the very people who would soon seek to destroy them.

– See more at: http://blog.oup.com/2013/11/thanksgiving-american-indian-treaty-violations/#sthash.j8seTGCk.dpuf

Jezebel: Tanning Salon Excited Indians Brought “Sexy Color” to First Thanksgiving

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An Alternative Origin Story as to the Origin of Turkey-Eating on Thanksgiving

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Mary Bono Mack Defeated by Raul Ruiz

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Rep. Mary Bono Mack Calls Opponent’s Participation in Indian Protest of Thanksgiving as “Radical”

Rep. Mary Bono Mack opened herself up to questions on her Indian record after her criticism of her opponent’s participation in a Native American protest of Thanksgiving as “radical” and anti/un American. See http://www.marybono.com/bono-mack-campaign-releases-new-radio-ad-thanksgiving/

Radio ad here.
She’s apparently not a fan of the Peltier people either.

Thanksgiving at Public Schools — 1st Amendment Case

In Doe v. Wilson County School System, a federal district court judge ordered a trial on the question of whether a thanksgiving day teaching unit featuring a prayer by pilgrims violated the First Amendment:

District Court Order [see pages 9-10]

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