This Thanksgiving, I encourage everyone to take time and begin this process of healing—recognize the hurt that was caused by colonization in order to bridge colonial divides and look forward to a new ...

"I know several people who call it ‘Colonizer Christmas,’ because they don’t really like the idea of what Thanksgiving represents," Johnson said. This mindset has also taken hold on college ...

Throughout the period of European colonization, millions of Native ... establishing the fourth Thursday in November as the federal Thanksgiving Day holiday. Arce said the struggle for the native ...

In the 1820s and 1830s, a Pequot minister named William Apess took aim at what would become Thanksgiving — arguing that the nation needed to rethink the colonization of New England, and view it ...

Tso likes to use the term "decolonize Thanksgiving," which to him means thinking about what his people ate and did before colonization, and celebrating that way. "I see it as a harvest feast.

I’m Indigenous and I’ve always celebrated Thanksgiving. There ... reminder of how their land was stolen from them during colonization, how many of their people were killed, and how their ...

Thanksgiving is emblematic of the broader ... Acknowledging this history is not about guilt; it is about truth. The legacies of colonization are not confined to the past. They manifest in ongoing ...

Dave Hensen read from "Gratitude Around the Table," a primer on the history of the Thanksgiving holiday and its origins "tied to the complexities of colonization." He left a copy at each place ...

Thanksgiving has never been what your fifth-grade teacher made it out to be. Thanks, Mrs. Clark. The colonization of North America was BYOB. Apparently. (National Archives) First of all ...

So here is some language to help you navigate Thanksgiving day dinner. We can start with a few obvious points: Columbus was not a hero but in reality a destructive colonizer whose conquests lead ...

A statue of young Abraham Lincoln was splashed with red paint on Thanksgiving Day with the words “COLONIZER” and “LAND BACK!” written below it in Chicago’s Edgewater neighborhood.