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Protest against settler colonialism in Plymouth, Massachusetts in November 2019.

Thanksgiving is a settler-colonial holiday in the United States of America. In 1970, Wamsutta Frank James of the Wampanoag nation founded the National Day of Mourning to protest against the celebration of colonialism.[1]

History

Governor John Winthrop of the Massachusetts Bay Colony proclaimed the first Thanksgiving in 1637 to celebrate a massacre of 700 Pequots in Connecticut.[2]

References

  1. K. James (2022-11-19). "53rd National Day of Mourning Indigenous pride, power and protest!" Workers World. Archived from the original on 2022-11-20. Retrieved 2022-11-20.
  2. Moonanum James (2022-11-19). "In memory of Moonanum James: ‘We are not vanishing. We are not conquered’" Workers World. Archived from the original on 2022-11-20. Retrieved 2022-11-20.