{"id":959,"date":"2025-03-12T13:06:22","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T13:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/veritas-et-caritas.com\/?p=959"},"modified":"2025-04-16T08:08:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T08:08:49","slug":"eight-thanksgiving-myths-youve-probably-heard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/veritas-et-caritas.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/12\/eight-thanksgiving-myths-youve-probably-heard\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight Thanksgiving myths you&#8217;ve probably heard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Over time the original history of Thanksgiving has become obscured and distorted by layers of mythology, largely aimed at upholding and justifying the settlement and colonization of indigenous land, and the dispossession of indigenous people. This video examines eight Thanksgiving myths which have become embedded in popular culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Eight Thanksgiving myths\" width=\"950\" height=\"534\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wulQzPcj218?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Adare-Tasiwoopa \u00e1pi, Sierra, and Melissa Adams-Campbell. \u201cSanitizing \u2018Indians\u2019 in America\u2019s Thanksgiving Story.\u201d International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education 29.5 (2016): 655\u201369.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>American Indian Movement Grand Governing Council. \u201cOrigins of Thanksgiving.\u201d American Indian Movement, 23 November 2005. https:\/\/www.aimovement.org\/moipr\/thanksgiv.html.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Baker, James W. Thanksgiving: The Biography of an American Holiday. Durham, New Hampshire: University of New Hampshire Press, 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bangs, Jeremy Dupertuis. New Light on the Old Colony: Plymouth, the Dutch Context of Toleration, and Patterns of Pilgrim Commemoration. Leiden\u202f; Boston: Brill, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014. \u201cRe-Bunking the Pilgrims.\u201d Historically Speaking 6.1 (2004): 2\u20135.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bradford, William, Edward Winslow, and Henry Martyn Dexter. Mourt\u2019s Relation, or, Journal of the Plantation at Plymouth,. Boston: J.K. Wiggin, 1865.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Coard, Michael. \u201cCoard: Celebrating Thanksgiving Is Celebrating Racist Genocide.\u201d The Philadelphia Tribune, 20 November 2021. https:\/\/www.phillytrib.com\/commentary\/michaelcoard\/coard-celebrating-thanksgiving-is-celebrating-racist-genocide\/article_136249bf-67cb-5bc8-a046-3b44defb4a5b.html.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Deetz, James, and Patricia E. Scott Deetz. The Times of Their Lives: Life, Love, and Death in Plymouth Colony. Anchor Books, 2001.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Greener, Richard. \u201cThe True Story Of Thanksgiving.\u201d HuffPost, 25 November 2010. https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/the-true-story-of-thanksg_b_788436.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hagerty, Barbara Bradley. \u201cThe Most Influential Evangelist You\u2019ve Never Heard Of.\u201d NPR, 8 August 2012, \u00a7 Religion. https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2012\/08\/08\/157754542\/the-most-influential-evangelist-youve-never-heard-of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>James, Wamsutta Frank B. \u201cThe Suppressed Speech of Wamsutta (Frank B.) James, Wampanoag,\u201d 1970. http:\/\/www.uaine.org\/suppressed_speech.htm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Loewen, James W. Lies my teacher told me: everything your American history textbook got wrong. New York: The New Press, 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybury, Richard J. \u201cThe Great Thanksgiving Hoax.\u201d Text. Mises Institute, 24 November 2014. https:\/\/mises.org\/library\/great-thanksgiving-hoax-1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Metcalf, Geoff. \u201cGod Bless America.\u201d Vin Suprynowicz, 25 November 2016. https:\/\/vinsuprynowicz.com\/?p=4305.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moonanum, James, and Munro Mahtowin. \u201cThanksgiving: A National Day of Mourning for Indians.\u201d United American Indians of New England, 2003. http:\/\/uaine.org\/old\/dom.htm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pleck, E. H. \u201cThanksgiving: The Biography of an American Holiday. By James W. Baker. (Durham, N.H.: University of New Hampshire Press, 2009. 288 Pages. Cloth: $26.95).\u201d Journal of Social History 44.4 (2011): 1264\u201366.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Powell, Benjamin. \u201cThe Pilgrims\u2019 Real Thanksgiving Lesson.\u201d Libertarian Party, 27 November 2013. https:\/\/www.lp.org\/blogs-staff-the-pilgrims-real-thanksgiving-lesson\/.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Roland, Elisa. \u201c22 History Lessons Your Teacher Lied to You About.\u201d Reader\u2019s Digest Canada, 4 October 2018. https:\/\/www.readersdigest.ca\/culture\/history-lessons-alternative-facts\/.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ross, Cathy. Teaching about Thanksgiving. 2nd ed. Olympia, WA: Superintendent of Public Instruction, 1986.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Silverman, David J. This Land Is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving. Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stephens, Randall. \u201cRebunking the Pilgrims?\u201d Rebunking the Pilgrims?, 24 November 2009. http:\/\/usreligion.blogspot.com\/2009\/11\/rebunking-pilgrims.html.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Westcott, Johyn, and Paul Apidaca. \u201cThanksgiving Day Celebrates A Massacre.\u201d The Peoples Paths, 16 November 2021. http:\/\/www.thepeoplespaths.net\/history\/ThanksgivingDayMassacre.htm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zernike, Kate. \u201cThe Pilgrims Were &#8230; Socialists?\u201d The New York Times, 20 November 2010, \u00a7 Week in Review. https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/11\/21\/weekinreview\/21zernike.html.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAmerican Indian Perspectives on Thanksgiving\u201d (n.d.): 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBackground Information &#8211; UAINE,\u201d n.d. http:\/\/www.uaine.org\/background.htm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTEACHING ABOUT THANKSGIVING &#8211; Native American Culture,\u201d n.d. http:\/\/ewebtribe.com\/NACulture\/articles\/thanksgiving.html.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over time the original history of Thanksgiving has become obscured and distorted by layers of mythology, largely aimed at upholding and justifying the settlement and colonization of indigenous land, and the dispossession of indigenous people. 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