Today, many Americans celebrate Thanksgiving. My family will be taking advantage of the time given to us to eat and be together. But we will not be celebrating colonialism.

Today is also National Day of Mourning for Native Americans. It was initiated by Frank "Wamsutta" James of the Wampanoag people in 1970.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Day_of_Mourning_(United_States_protest)

#Thanksgiving #NativeAmerican #Indigenous #NationalDayOfMourning

annual protest, held in opposition to Thanksgiving in the Eastern United States

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Reminder: 'Thanksgiving' is a celebration of genocide. If you're going to be posting about celebrating it, please consider:

a) NOT posting about it. We have many Indigenous folk on .art and accross the fediverse at large. They don't need to see you happily celebrating the genocide of millions of Indigenous Americans.

b) Content warn it.

c) Hashtag it #thanksgiving so that people can filter it out of their feeds.

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