"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 ...

And the truth about Thanksgiving should be learned by all Americans, as it is a part of our complicated history of savage betrayal and removal of indigenous people and the colonization of their land.

This Thanksgiving, let’s break the bonds of colonization and capitalism—not just on our plates but in our perspectives, too. I want a Thanksgiving where I can be thankful that I live in a ...

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.

For over a century, growing recognition of the historical inaccuracies and blatant cultural misrepresentations embedded in the traditional narrative of American Thanksgiving — which often gloss ...

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 ...

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 ...

Recent activism has urged a decolonization of Thanksgiving; some are even calling for abolishment ... gave permission to white explorers to murder, and how destructive colonization has been to ...

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.