For Native Peoples, Thanksgiving Isn't A Celebration. It's A National Day Of Mourning

This year marks the 400th anniversary of pilgrims arriving at what’s now known as Plymouth, Massachusetts.

The so-called first Thanksgiving has been celebrated and taught to schoolchildren as the origin story of what would later become the United States. But many Native Americans say Thanksgiving Day is a reminder of the slaughter of millions of Indigenous people and the theft of their lands by outsiders.