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The Thanksgiving Myth
The “friendly Indians”, that kids all across the US dress up as in generic stereotypical caricature “Indian” costumes in the week leading to Thanksgiving, are not characters in a play, or people of the past. They are the Wampanoag Tribes— learn their history today.
“In 1692 the Wampanoag Tribe Had Its Own Agenda: In American lore, friendly Indians helped freedom-loving colonists. In real life, the Wampanoags had a problem they didn’t know how to fix.” By David J Silverman in The Atlantic
“The Myths of the Thanksgiving Story and the Lasting Damage They Imbue”,by Clair Bugos in Smithsonian Magazine. Interview with the above author.
“Do American Indians celebrate Thanksgiving?” by Dennis Zotigh in Smithsonian Magazine
WATCHPeople of the First Light, Thanksgiving: A Native Perspective on Youtube
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Donate to the Native-Run Land Conservation program in New England
Donate to the Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project
Donate to the Native American Rights Fund
Support, learn, and donate to the Wampanoag Tribes directly:
Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe. Mashpee MA. Culture & History,Donate,Facebook,
Herring Pond Wampanoag Tribe. Plymouth MA. History,Donate,Instagram,Facebook,Twitter
Chappaquiddick Wampanoag Tribe. Edgardtown, MA History,Donate,Instagram,Facebook
donate to the Wampanoag people!
“The Wampanoag Nation once included all of Southeastern Massachusetts and Eastern Rhode Island, encompassing over 67 distinct tribal communities…With the European settlers came much adversity for our tribe - disease that virtually wiped out whole villages, systems of government that bore little resemblance to our tribal practices and values, missionaries intent on converting us to Christianity, and private models of land use and ownership that conflicted with our tribe’s own communal practices and values. The vast majority of these tribal communities were killed in battles initiated by colonists to secure land. Today, only six visible tribal communities remain.” (Wampanoag history)
donate to the Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project
donate to the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe
donate to the Herring Pond Wampanoag Tribe
As the President of Genocide and Settler Conquest plans to steal 321 acres of Indigenous land from the Mashpee-Wampanoag, let this be a brutal reminder that THIS IS NOT YOUR LAND. This is the very tribe that helped the colonizing Pilgrims survive. THIS WILL NEVER BE YOUR LAND!
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High resolution 18″ x 12″ map of the Historic Territory of the Indigenous Wapanoag from 1620. As with all our posters, please, feel liberated to share, repost, print, disseminate & wheatpaste at will!
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Artwork by: @riseindigenous
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Still Here
“Still Here,“ a mural by artist Gaia, shows a Narragansett Tribe member, Lynsea Montanari, holding a picture of Princess Red Wing of the Narragansett/Pokanoket-Wampanoag tribes.
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