Tweet Thanksgiving Tales!There are many controversies about Thanksgiving and what it means in our politically charged culture. Thanksgiving tradition celebrates a practice based on generations after generations without really understanding its historical origin, provenance, and devastating effect on American natives. We only tell the story of the dominant culture, the winner, and we accept the story we want to hear. Thanksgiving, we are told, is the story of the braves pioneers who landed in Plymouth in 1620, where the local Native Americans welcomed them and shared a meal. None is told of what happened in the 50 years after that; land grabbing, diseases, broken treaties, and the big war…
