Despite widespread Thanksgiving celebrations in America, historical misconceptions and distortions surrounding the holiday have resulted in many Native Americans feeling left behind
tribe not helped them plant corn and other crops. They also taught the Pilgrims how to use fish remains as fertiliser and showed them ways to survive the bitter winter chill.
Despite receiving assistance from the Wampanoag people, the surviving colonists endeavored to dominate the natives. Over the years the Pilgrims took their lands and contributed to their genocide. Members of native tribes steadily diminished over the generations, which has contributed to the disgust many indigenous people feel about Thanksgiving. According to white Americans, the first Thanksgiving marked the first successful harvest the Pilgrims celebrated in the New World.
The numbers of indigenous peoples on the continent continued to diminish over the centuries. Today only 2,800 from the Wampanoag tribe exist. Almost none of them like to celebrate Thanksgiving. This sentiment doesn’t merely apply to the Wampanoag people. Almost the entire indigenous population of all North America was wiped out by colonialism. Prior to Europeans coming to the New World, the entire continent had been completely populated by Indian tribes, whose ancestors were estimated to have arrived in North AmericaCurrently, Native Americans, who number around five million, are only 1.6 percent of the entire US population.
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