{"id":1055045,"date":"2021-11-25T14:14:12","date_gmt":"2021-11-25T19:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1055045"},"modified":"2021-11-25T14:14:16","modified_gmt":"2021-11-25T19:14:16","slug":"native-americans-to-mourn-on-thanksgiving-no-thanks-no-giving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/native-americans-to-mourn-on-thanksgiving-no-thanks-no-giving\/","title":{"rendered":"Native Americans to Mourn on Thanksgiving: &#039;No Thanks, No Giving&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnative-americans-to-mourn-on-thanksgiving-no-thanks-no-giving%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1055045&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/FE5eBvQWQAMgTF7-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Members of Native American tribes in New England are gathering where the Pilgrims originally settled to mourn Indigenous people \u201cwho\u2019ve suffered centuries of racism and mistreatment,\u201d the Associated Press (AP) <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/wireStory\/tribes-mourn-thanksgiving-reason-celebrate-81389133\">reported<\/a> Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The National Day of Mourning in Plymouth, Massachusetts, is supposed to bring attention to the \u201cdisease and oppression\u201d European settlers brought with them, the article read.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"5.0746268656716\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">National Day of Mourning<br \/>11.25.21  Plymouth MA <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NDOM21?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NDOM21<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yZSKRZK4oy\">pic.twitter.com\/yZSKRZK4oy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 UAINE (ndnviewpoint) (@mahtowin1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mahtowin1\/status\/1451175658365898754?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 21, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"allCNXContent\" readability=\"55.130434782609\">\n<p>\u201cWe Native people have no reason to celebrate the arrival of the Pilgrims,\u201d Kisha James, who is a member of the Aquinnah Wampanoag and Oglala Lakota tribes, stated.<\/p>\n<p>The outlet continued:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"14\">\n<p>\u201cWe want to educate people so that they understand the stories we all learned in school about the first Thanksgiving are nothing but lies. Wampanoag and other Indigenous people have certainly not lived happily ever after since the arrival of the Pilgrims,\u201d James said. \u201cTo us, Thanksgiving is a day of mourning, because we remember the millions of our ancestors who were murdered by uninvited European colonists such as the Pilgrims. Today, we and many Indigenous people around the country say, \u2018No Thanks, No Giving.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It marks the 52nd year the United American Indians of New England <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/national-day-of-mourning-2021-jamaica-plain-to-plymouth-bus-tickets-206961566617?fbclid=IwAR2nGjdYBR4XJySjkpyt3V6Z5R89aBkp-iTkpEmaZGu_5HICCUd3_7jYq9g\">organized<\/a> the gathering. The first took place in 1970.<\/p>\n<p>According to its Facebook page, the group <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/UAINE\/about\">said<\/a>,&nbsp;\u201cWe educate and organize around the racism and genocide denial perpetuated via the Pilgrim mythology and the Thanksgiving myth.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"6.5263157894737\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">2021 National Day of Mourning <br \/>Thursday noon<br \/>Cole&#8217;s Hill, Plymouth<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ekvgcMEYOZ\">https:\/\/t.co\/ekvgcMEYOZ<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SNmdm7DG5G\">pic.twitter.com\/SNmdm7DG5G<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Massachusetts Peace Action (MAPA) (@masspeaceaction) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/masspeaceaction\/status\/1463210316276318215?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 23, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Participants will arrive at noon on Cole\u2019s Hill, a mound that overlooks Plymouth Rock, and will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IrXXA2SaiAs\">livestream<\/a> the event, according to the AP.<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"[LIVE] National Day of Mourning 2021 (November 25, 2021, 12PM ET) **Starts at 14:45**\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IrXXA2SaiAs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>However, honoring the founding of Plymouth in 1620 was not meant to turn a blind eye to the terrible history of American slavery that began in 1619 in Virginia, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/25\/mansour-the-pilgrims-progress-honoring-our-forefathers-on-the-400th-anniversary-of-the-first-and-most-expensive-thanksgiving\/\">wrote<\/a> Breitbart News\u2019s Rebecca Mansour:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"13\">\n<p>And to celebrate Thanksgiving is not to dismiss the atrocities committed against our Native communities, even sadly at the hands of the Pilgrims\u2019 descendants. On Thanksgiving, we acknowledge that the Pilgrims and the Natives&nbsp;<em>did<\/em>, in fact, come together in peace in November 1621.&nbsp;We celebrate their story\u2014and the ritual reenactment of it with a turkey feast and prayers of thanksgiving\u2014to acknowledge our highest aspirations, not to whitewash our history or minimize our mistakes.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Thanksgiving holiday affirms who Americans want to be because \u201cit commemorates who the Pilgrims actually were,\u201d she stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of Native American tribes in New England are gathering where the Pilgrims originally settled to mourn Indigenous people \u201cwho\u2019ve suffered centuries of racism and mistreatment,\u201d the Associated Press (AP) &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1055045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1055045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1055045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1055045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1055045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}