This is a process of decolonization. Whether you are the descendants of colonizers or the colonized—or, like me, both—all of our peoples have experienced the loss of something essential to our liberated well-being. Whether that was taken from you or given away in the bargain to win power, it is loss.

In 1970 Wamsutta, known as Frank James, was the leader of the Wampanoag, in the year of the 350th anniversary of the Mayflower's sailing.

James had been invited to a Thanksgiving state dinner to mark the anniversary, as part of a celebration that embraced the misleading schoolbook narrative of the Pilgrims’ relationship with the Wampanoag that