Where Are the Voices of Indigenous Peoples in the Thanksgiving Story?

Thus our popular history of the Pilgrims has not been a process of gaining perspective but of deliberate forgetting. Instead of these important facts, textbooks supply the feel-good minutiae of Squanto’s helpfulness, his name, the fish in the corn-hills, sometimes even the menu and the number of American Indians who attended the prototypical first

Inherent in the myth we’ve been taught is an embrace of settler colonialism and genocide.