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#DecolonizeThanksgiving

"It's not a day of thanks. It's a day of mourning."

These Native Americans reflect on what Thanksgiving means to them: pic.twitter.com/tu5zYs6Uhw

— Splinter (@splinter_news) November 20, 2017

Articles:

Indigenous Slavery and the Thanksgiving Difference

Thanksgiving Is National Day of Mourning for Many Native Americans: ‘A Lot of Us Will Come Together’

Thanksgiving Whitewashes Not Only Genocide, But Gender Erasure

The battle over critical race theory is as American as pumpkin pie

The Forgotten History of Solidarity Between Black and Indigenous Freedom Movements

The Myth of the First Thanksgiving is a Buttress of White Nationalism and Needs to Go

Words That Matter: Black and Indigenous Solidarity and the Right to Language

Books:

AN AFRO-INDIGENOUS HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES

This Land Is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving

Ties That Bind The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom

We Refuse to Forget: A True Story of Black Creeks, American Identity, and Power

Podcast:

The Bloody History of Thanksgiving

Video:

The Forgotten Slavery of Our Ancestors

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