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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Thanksgiving’
The True History of Thanksgiving
Posted in 2008 November, tagged American Indian Heritage Month, Indian Education, Native American, Thanksgiving on November 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A Different Perspective on Thanksgiving
Posted in 2008 November, tagged American Indian Heritage Month, Indian Education, Native American, Thanksgiving on November 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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
Authentic Thanksgiving Food
Posted in 2008 November, tagged American Indian Heritage Month, food, Indian Education, Pilgrims, Thanksgiving on November 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
A letter to parents about Thanksgiving
Posted in 2008 November, tagged American Indian Heritage Month, Indian Education, Native American, parenting, prejudice, Thanksgiving on November 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
www.understandingprejudice.org/teach/thanksgiv.htm
Thanksgiving presents a special challenge to school teachers who want to discuss the holiday without resorting to biased information about Native American history and culture. To prepare parents for an anti-bias curricular approach, educators may wish to use or adapt the letter below.
Dear Parents:
As a part of our anti-bias curriculum, we are taking a careful [...]
Teaching About Thanksgiving
Posted in 2008 November, tagged American Indian Heritage Month, colonization, Indian Education, Pilgrims, Plymouth Rock, Teaching About Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving, Wampanoag on November 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
www.learnnc.org/lp/pages/623 - Great resource for teaching about Thanksgiving!
Learning activities surrounding Thanksgiving need, above all, to be historically accurate. In order to understand the first Thanksgiving, students need to have a good sense of its historical context — the religious beliefs of the Pilgrims, the culture of the Wampanoag people who lived in the Plymouth area before [...]
National Day of Mourning
Posted in 2008 November, tagged American Indian Heritage Month, Frank James, Indian Education, Massosoit, National day of Mourning, Native American, Pilgrims, Plymouth Rock, Thanksgiving, Wampanoag on November 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The National Day of Mourning
www.holidays.net/thanksgiving/mourn.htm
On Thanksgiving Day, many Native Americans and their supporters gather at the top of Coles Hill, overlooking Plymouth Rock, for the “National Day of Mourning.”
The first National Day of Mourning was held in 1970. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts invited Wampanoag leader Frank James to deliver a speech. When the text of [...]
