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Alcatraz Island, Nov. 25, 2021. (Photo by Dalton Walker, Indian Country Today)
News

Thanksgiving stories gloss over the history of US settlement

By The Conversation
Community garden volunteer Mick Rose of the Diné performs a smudging ceremony as volunteers are welcomed to the Wapas Nah Nee Shaku Unthanksgiving Garden Work Party at the Native American Youth and Family Center (NAYA) community garden in Portland, Ore., on November 24, 2022. (Photo by: Alex Milan Tracy)
News

UnThanksgiving organizers want to rethink colonial holidays

By Nika Bartoo-Smith
Northwest Bureau
Leslie Logan. (Photo courtesy of Leslie Logan)
Opinion

Spirit of Thanksgiving

By ICT Opinion
Volunteers in the North Slope community of Anaktuvuk Pass unloading hundreds of pounds of bowhead whale donated by the Ipalook Whaling Crew from Nuiqsut ahead of Thanksgiving 2022. (Photo courtesy of Casey Edwards)
News

'It’s part of our heart to share'

By Anchorage Daily News
Sunrise gathering on Alcatraz Island, Nov. 25, 2021. This image was announced on Monday as an award winner by the Native American Journalists Association. (Photo by Dalton Walker, Indian Country Today)
News

400 years later, ‘we did not vanish’

By Dalton Walker
Joanne Shenandoah (Photo by Jane Feldman)
News

The Wrap: ‘Musical matriarch’ changed lives

By ICT
2008 feast plate in Michigan: turkey and gravy, green beans, mashed potatoes, stuffing, sweet potato, creamed onions, olives. (Photo by GP Witteveen, Creative Commons)
Lifestyle

#KickinWithKolby: Thanksgiving

By Kolby KickingWoman
Finley Delaronde, Metis/Cree/Ojibway, received her Indigenous spirit name - Apsimosis Iskwesis (Little Deer Girl) - from her Chapan (great-grandmother) Nellie Morrisseau during the family's 2021 Thanksgiving celebrations. (Photo courtesy of Melissa Morrisseau)
News

A Canadian looks at American Thanksgiving

By Miles Morrisseau
File: Flags at Ho-Chunk cemetery in Nebraska (photo by Mary Annette Pember)
News

Thanksgiving offers a way forward

By Mary Annette Pember
Steven Peters 2
Newscasts

A Wampanoag retelling of Thanksgiving

By ICT
Doug George-Kanentiio Thanksgiving
Opinion

A true Native American Thanksgiving

By Doug George-Kanentiio
This is a popular image of the first Thanksgiving, a painting by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris. But this is definitely NOT what happened.
Archives

What Really Happened at the First Thanksgiving? The Wampanoag Side of the Tale

By Gale Courey Toensing
This illustration shows a Thanksgiving Day celebration at Plymouth Colony with a “Hot Dog” vendor in the foreground, a “Pink Firewater” booth on the upper left, where the Natives have congregated, and a large group of Pilgrims entering a stockade for a football game, “Ye Indians versus Ye Pilgrims”, which is about to begin.
Archives

6 Thanksgiving Myths and the Wampanoag Side of the Story

By Vincent Schilling
The Wampanoag Nation Singers and Dancers, 2011. Salt Pond, Cape Cod National Seashore. Courtesy of the Wampanoag Nation Singers and Dancers
Archives

Do American Indians Celebrate Thanksgiving?

By Dennis W. Zotigh
While many paintings of “the First Thanksgiving” show a single long table with several Pilgrims and a few Native people, there were actually twice as many Wampanoag people as colonists. It is unlikely that everyone could have been accommodated at one table. Rather, Wampanoag leaders like Massasoit and his advisors were most likely entertained in the home of Plymouth Colony’s governor, William Bradford.
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The Wampanoag Side of the First Thanksgiving Story

By Michelle Tirado