Indigenous people speak out against Thanksgiving 'myth' at Day of Mourning in Plymouth

"Many Native people do not celebrate the arrival of the Pilgrims and other European settlers. Thanksgiving Day is a reminder of the genocide of millions of Native people, the theft of Native lands and the erasure of Native cultures."

"They told him he could speak only if he were willing to offer false praise of the pilgrims. Instead, Wamsutta Frank James organized a group of local Native activists to observe the first National Day of Mourning on Thanksgiving Day."

"By sanitizing the English invasion of Wampanoag homelands, the Thanksgiving myth blatantly disregards the true history of the Pilgrims' arrival in America and the centuries of violence that followed."

Read at Boston.com