'Thankstaking' is a Native American-influenced alternative to Thanksgiving
proclaimed a Thanksgiving Day celebration at the height of the Civil War to "heal the wounds of the nation." Indigenous scholars point out that Lincoln at the same time was engaged in a violent campaign to remove Native Americans.
Schools introduced the Thanksgiving story to children without discussing the violence that followed, and often encouraged students to make cut-out, paper Indigenous headdresses — which some find offensive."Thanksgiving is nothing but government propaganda," Crystal Echo Hawk, founder and executive director of the Indigenous advocacy group IllumiNative, told Axios.
Echo Hawk, an enrolled member of the Pawnee Nation, said Indigenous people are tired of the romantic version of Thanksgiving and old stereotypes of Native Americans. "Real talk: The pilgrims would have died if we didn't help out. Thankstaking is an opportunity to underline...that after the first Thanksgiving, we just didn't disappear like some forest ghosts," TV writer Joey Clift, a member of theNational Day of Mourning, which was launched in 1970.— a similar ceremony held on Alcatraz Island in California.
Un-Thanksgiving Day commemorates the 1969 Occupation of Alcatraz by Indigenous activists who wanted to bring attention to genocide.
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