Column One: A family learns to tell a new kind of Thanksgiving story
It’s hard to say when or how it started, but a few years ago my husband and I quit celebrating Thanksgiving.
But where do you begin to educate your child when some of your most vivid memories from grade school are of wearing handmade buckle-top Pilgrim hats and feathered Indian headbands? Growing up, I performed in at least two Thanksgiving feast plays, bringing to life one of two characters: Happy Pilgrim. Happy Indian.and the only Native person I’ve ever known. But it felt odd to ask him, out of the blue:Our girl was tiny then, just starting to talk. Every Thanksgiving we took her out to nature.
But the truth was, we still had no clue how to start. And if we couldn’t begin telling our children this nation’s story, how could we ever speak to them about our personal histories?, tell them how the Ottoman Empire, now modern-day Turkey, systematically killed 1.5 million Armenians between 1915 and 1923.
One thing about living in the United States that we caught on to real fast were the holidays. For each ritual on the calendar, we learned what props to buy and just how to perform — greeting cards on Valentine’s Day, green clothing on St. Patrick’s Day, costumes on Halloween.The only script we never fully learned to follow was Thanksgiving.
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