How do you respectfully observe Thanksgiving?
- Learn the Real History. …
- Decolonize Your Dinner. …
- Listen to Indigenous Voices. …
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- Celebrate Native People. …
- Buy Native This Holiday. …
- Share Positive Representations of Native People. …
- End Racist Native Mascots in Sports.
How do you decolonize Thanksgiving?
- Tell The Real History Of Thanksgiving. …
- Eat Foods Indigenous To North America. …
- Include New Voices. …
- Learn What Land You’re On. …
- Hear A Native American Perspective. …
- Support Native Americans.
How do Native Americans honor Thanksgiving?
- Learn About The Land You Are On.
- Support Native Farmers and Distilleries.
- Invite Your Family To Join In On The Festivities.
- Implement Native American Films.
- Decolonize Your Playlist.
- Celebrate Native American Designers and Artists.
- Support Native People.
What can I say other than Happy Thanksgiving?
- National Day of Mourning. Alex Wong/Getty Images News/Getty Images. …
- Unthanksgiving Day. …
- National Day of Listening. …
- Native American Heritage Month. …
- Restorative Justice Week. …
- National Family Week. …
- National Game and Puzzle Week. …
- National Farm-City Week.
Is Thanksgiving offensive to indigenous?
“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,” says the United American Indians of New England. They’ve marked the occasion as a day of mourning for 48 years, according to Native Hope.
What are indigenous peoples?
Indigenous Peoples are distinct social and cultural groups that share collective ancestral ties to the lands and natural resources where they live, occupy or from which they have been displaced. … There are between 370 and 500 million Indigenous Peoples worldwide, in over 90 countries.
Why should we not celebrate Thanksgiving?
They hate Thanksgiving and don’t celebrate it because they view it as religious or a holiday where the pilgrims stole the land from the Native Americans. … As mentioned before, most people that don’t celebrate Thanksgiving do so because it is viewed as a national day of mourning, according to Independent.
What Thanksgiving really means?
Thanksgiving Day, annual national holiday in the United States and Canada celebrating the harvest and other blessings of the past year. Americans generally believe that their Thanksgiving is modeled on a 1621 harvest feast shared by the English colonists (Pilgrims) of Plymouth and the Wampanoag people.