Facing Race: On 400th anniversary of Thanksgiving, the Wampanoag People want their story told

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1. And that's just Thanksgiving

Google up King Phillip's War ... Zoeth Howland. Amazing they could get through that piece by hardly mentioning religion.

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2. The most ironic thing about "Thanksgiving"

The Pilgrims never referred to it as Thanksgiving. To them, a Thanksgiving would have been a day spent in prayer, not a day feasting and playing games.

Most Americans think the Pilgrims started a tradition that continues to this day. They didn’t. The Pilgrims had exactly one fall harvest feast, in 1621. That was it! No one even remembered them until Josiah Winslow’s written account was rediscovered in the 1840s - for 200 years the Pilgrims were forgotten.

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3. Thank you. ❤