Thanksgiving should it be celebrated

The National Day of Mourning kicked off unintentionally in The organizers invited Frank James, a Wampanoag man, to speak at the banquet. Rather than deliver a speech that left out the facts, James and his supporters gathered at Plymouth, where they observed the first National Day of Mourning. Anne Thundercloud of the Ho-Chunk Nation told the Journal that her people also give thanks continually, so a single day of the year for thanksgiving clashes with Ho-Chunk tradition.

We think of every day as Thanksgiving. Thundercloud and her family have incorporated the fourth Thursday of November into the other holidays observed by the Ho-Chunk, the Journal reports.

They extend Thanksgiving observance until Friday when they celebrate Ho-Chunk Day, a large gathering for their community. Actively scan device characteristics for identification. Use precise geolocation data. Select personalised content. Create a personalised content profile. Measure ad performance. Select basic ads. Create a personalised ads profile. Select personalised ads. Mr Washington proclaimed a second day of Thanksgiving in , and presidents John Adams, James Madison and others did the same in subsequent years.

But many presidents, particularly Thomas Jefferson, still opposed doing this. It was not until that President Abraham Lincoln established the regular tradition of observing days of national Thanksgiving. Join thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their replies. Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? We can have our feasts include dishes like cedar-braised rabbit, sunchokes with sumac, pine-stewed venison, smoked turkey with chestnuts, true wild rice with foraged mushrooms, native squash with maple, smoked salmon and wild teas.

No matter where you are in North America, you are on indigenous land. There is no need to make Thanksgiving about a false past. It is so much better when it celebrates the beauty of the present. The original version of this story misstated the year in which the Pequot Massacre occurred. It was , not Contact us at letters time.

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