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Thanksgiving epitomizes a make-believe nation’s fake history of cordial Native-colonizer relations as its founding. We are thus compelled every year to counter a Disneyland story erasing European invasion, land theft, and Indigenous genocide. #NationalDayOfMourning 
The cynicism of the so-called “culture wars” over national holidays and fake histories is that they gloss over how billions of acres of territory was annexed to make the USA. That’s imperialism. European invasion introduced a class system, sexism, racism, and bigotry.
Whether you feel good or bad is not the point. Feelings aren’t facts. To know the history of the USA is to realize that immense suffering and loss weren’t inevitable and that things need not always be this way. No culture founded on invasion is legitimate.
1. “The narrative around #Thanksgiving today ignores our history”
The story of America is incomplete without understanding the genocide of Indigenous populations
It is a day of national mourning #ThanksgivingDay #Thanksgiving2021 #NationalDayOfMourning
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The story of America is incomplete without understanding the genocide of Indigenous populations
It is a day of national mourning #ThanksgivingDay #Thanksgiving2021 #NationalDayOfMourning
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2. “To me, #Thanksgiving is a reminder of our resistance as Indigenous People navigating this settler society that continuously tries to erase & destroy us, yet we are still here.”
#MUSTREAD 2018 essay by @lilnativeboy
#ThanksgivingDay #Thanksgiving2021
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#MUSTREAD 2018 essay by @lilnativeboy
#ThanksgivingDay #Thanksgiving2021
papermag.com/thanksgiving-n…
3/. For Indigenous Americans, #Thanksgiving = a #dayofmourning
For other Americans, #ThanksgivingDay = a day to start along the road of redemption
Redemption requires:
🌻Acknowledgment
🌻Contrition
🌻Penance (i.e. making amends)
At COP26 this man took two steps along this path
For other Americans, #ThanksgivingDay = a day to start along the road of redemption
Redemption requires:
🌻Acknowledgment
🌻Contrition
🌻Penance (i.e. making amends)
At COP26 this man took two steps along this path
Last week, Rev. Fr Nichodemus Benedict from the Catholic Mission in Idon village officiated in #MassBurial of 11 victims of the most recent #AdaraMassacres, in Makyali around 13 May. Departing from usual script, the #MakyaliMassacre was in daytime.
#NotAtWar
#NDOM20
#NotAtWar
#NDOM20
The victims in this #AdaraMassacre included 6 members of the local vigilante. Makyali is about 55km from Kaduna city. The killings in Makyali took place between 07:00-11:00 hrs in daytime & the killers reportedly overran soldiers on their approach to the village
#NotAtWar
#NDOM20
#NotAtWar
#NDOM20
At least 2 other members of the local vigilante in Makyali are still reported missing from this instalment of the #AdaraMassacres. On the same day, 2 other villages - Idanu Doka & Unguwan Rana Doka - not far from Makyali, were also attacked.
#NotAtWar
#NDOM20
#NotAtWar
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