Historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz on Thanksgiving: "It Has Never Been About Honoring Native Americans"

[Warpy]

3. No, it started as a rather god soaked harvest celebration

in a mostly agrarian country. Now it's all about stuffing a huge meal down your throat as quickly as possible so you can either snore in front of a TV showing football or join the crowds elbowing each other out of the way, your purchases rung up by people who also swallowed their dinners like pills but only because they had to get to work.

Yes, I'm jaded. Thanksgiving with my bunch back in New England was a hide from the family holiday that we spent with each other, the dinners being covered dish affairs and always good, if sometimes a little lopsided and strange.

The pious mouthing about the Indians is just that. Yes, the Wampanoags shared food with the Pilgrims for a while but the good feelings soon soured completely. I've heard the Wampanoag take on Thanksgiving and we white folks don't come off too good in it.

Stan Frebiurg did it best: