Recognizing the “Mourning” Elements of Thanksgiving alongside Learning Gifts Dennis Zotigh (Kiowa/Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo/Isante Dakota Indian), in a 2011 essay, Thanksgiving from an Indigenous Perspective, updated this November 2022, asks a vital question about how “Native Americans make peace with a national holiday that romanticizes the 1621 encounter between their ancestors and English settlers, and erases …
Sarah Ruffing Robbins 