The Indigenous community members who live in the United States tell a much different story about Thanksgiving.
The first Thanksgiving often gets framed as a happy feast between Pilgrims and Indigenous people. The darker parts of the story are usually left out.
"I just remember sitting there and looking at the curriculum and realizing that it hadn't changed from when I was in school," Wallace, who is an Orutsararmiut Native Council member, recalled to "Good Morning America," saying it "felt wrong" to go along with the "happy feast" storyline.
When she talked to her daughter, Wallace said that "even though it was a little bit uncomfortable, she was able to still, at 5 years old, grasp the concept of the true history about Thanksgiving," and when her daughter went to school and told her peers and teacher, they were open to hearing a broader story, one that Indigenous people are still uncovering and sharing today.
Pierite also described the National Day of Mourning protest as a ceremonial procession that's filled with prayer. "People don't know the whole story of Squanto. They just hear, 'Oh, Squanto was the friendly Indian who taught the Pilgrims how to live in the New World and he was the hero,' " Paula Peters, a Mashpee Wampanoag writer who also wrote the introduction to Plymouth colony governor William Bradford's "Of Plimoth Plantation" journal, told "GMA."
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