The traditional Thanksgiving story got it wrong. How should you talk about the holiday with your kids?
which has inhabited present-day southeastern Massachusetts and eastern Rhode Island for more than 12,000 years.
You can tell your kids that the Wampanoag did teach the colonists how to farm, and the colonists held their first harvest feast — a three-day affair — in 1621. But the relationship between the settlers and Natives was uneasy at best, and the Wampanoag weren’t invited to the gathering. They showed up only after the English shot off their muskets in celebration; Wampanoag warriors came running, fearing war had been declared.
Both Sorell and Schupman stressed the importance of talking about Native peoples in the here and now; using only the past tense reinforces the myth of the “Vanishing Indian” and negates the experiences and the dynamic cultures of Native peoples today. A study ofacross the country found that 87% of the content that is taught about Native Americans takes place prior to 1900.
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