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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This list may be helpful: https://www.firstnations.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Revised_Book_Insert_Web_Version_March_2018.pdf

The facebook group Kid's Books for a Better World is helpful for these sorts of questions.

I've taken my kid to the National Day of Mourning event in Plymouth, MA. 2020 is probably not the year to attend, but it's a powerful event and I really recommend trying to go some year: http://www.uaine.org/[/quote]

I read the website you linked. Interesting that took your kids to a “highly political” protest event where the participants put KKK robes on statues. 
I understand the horrible things that happened to native groups when settlers arrived. What I don’t understand is why that makes what happened in the fall of 1621 in New England a “myth.”  The native Americans did help the Europeans, they did have a feast, and they did have a peace treaty that lasted for 50 years. So why is Thanksgiving itself so controversial? Columbus Day, I understand, but not this. [/quote]

From the website: "Many Native Americans do not celebrate the arrival of the Pilgrims and other European settlers. Thanksgiving day is a reminder of the genocide of millions of Native people, the theft of Native lands, and the relentless assault on Native culture. Participants in National Day of Mourning honor Native ancestors and the struggles of Native peoples to survive today. It is a day of remembrance and spiritual connection as well as a protest of the racism and oppression which Native Americans continue to experience." I wouldn't say Thanksgiving is controversial, but when I think of it from the point of view of the Wampanoag, having suffered so many losses to the epidemics of the early 1600s, making an uneasy alliance because they were pressed on all sides, suffering more devastating losses in the war to come, having their surviving members sold into slavery in the Caribbean and New England. The popular memory of early America that became Thanksgiving stripped all that away.

My people have lived here since the 1700s, were colonized in their countries of origin, and became settler-colonists here. Having been raised in an active republican Irish-American family, I would never celebrate the twelfth of July, and I approach thanksgiving similarly.[/quote]

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