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This is our hope for all children everywhere.

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We believe it’s in all of us.

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Here’s a link to an article on the true history of Thanksgiving. It is likely this is not the story you’ve been told.  www.aaanativearts.com/article937.html
Here’s the most important thing we took from this article:
…Over the centuries, Thanksgiving has become a special day to join with loved ones in an offering of thanks for our blessings. Some [...]

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If you are an educator or parent who teaches children about Thanksgiving, here is a MUST READ article offering a differing perspective and resources on the puritan/Indian mythology surrounding the Thanksgiving holiday.
www.ewebtribe.com/NACulture/articles/thanksgiving.html

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Foods Available to the Pilgrims for their 1621 Thanksgiving from www.nativeamericans.com/Thanksgiving.htm
FISH:  cod, bass, herring, shad, bluefish, and lots of eel.
SEAFOOD:  clams, lobsters, mussels, and very small quantities of oysters
BIRDS:  wild turkey, goose, duck, crane, swan, partridge, and other miscellaneous waterfowl; they were also known to have occasionally eaten eagles (which “tasted like mutton” according to [...]

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www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=281
In The Way to Rainy Mountain, N. Scott Momaday links the survival of the Kiowa people to their ability to remember, preserve, and pass on stories. Taking the idea one step further, Momaday models the necessity of personal involvement in the stories. For Momaday, to make sense of and find a place in the contemporary [...]

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www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=324
Many people think that Native Americans are a vanished people—that they do not exist in the present day.
Using this lesson plan, teachers can use photo essays and other texts to introduce students to Native children and their families, thereby countering the idea that Native people no longer exist.

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