Thanksgiving in the United States, commonly depicted with images of family gatherings, feasts, and expressions of gratitude, is celebrated by many as a cherished holiday. However, for many Native ...

It's National Native American Heritage Day. As a way to learn about Native American history, Tuscarora Nation shares how Thanksgiving is observed.

Although many Americans view Thanksgiving as a beloved holiday, it is viewed by some who have abandoned the holiday as a celebration of the conquest of Native Americans.

Thanksgiving is considered by some to be a national day of mourning. Professor Robert Jensen, of the University of Texas at Austin, previously suggested in an op-ed that Americans replace the ...

Attendees also dined on soft, warm frybread, a kind of traditional Native American fried dough. Some took to the event’s open mike to share their own cultural histories and stories of how Thanksgiving ...

My Thanksgiving: How testifying for Native Americans made me a witness to history I'm a scholar of Native American history. But my real education came from working with Native people in the present ...

So, that part of the beloved story of the first Thanksgiving was accurate. But it wasn’t long before the newcomers began evangelizing and enslaving the Native Americans.

“Thanksgiving, commemorating the Pilgrims’ harvest feast, and sometimes marked as a day of mourning to recognize the decimation of the Native Americans by the colonists,” the calendar says.