My daughter came home from school yesterday with a feathered headband, they'd been learning about thanksgiving.
It's an American tradition but we've all been exposed to the nature of it through movies set around it (usually old friends reunited coming back from the big cities to small town America where old rivalries flare up and old romances are rekindled etc) to TV series sitcoms and dramas. Point is we all know about it and how it originated in the 1600s with the first successful harvest which the settlers (pilgrims?) shared with the less fortunate natives of the area.
Anyway, it got me to thinking, all the depictions I've seen of thanksgiving involve nice white people sitting around eating turkey and punkin pie and watching football and then it also occured to me that assuming the TV/Movies depictions reflect reality, at least to a degree, then no one includes the indians in their celebrations.
Surely an authentic Thanksgiving celebration would involve inviting some Indians to join your family and share the good fortune.
To the Americans among us surely it would be a thoughtful gesture to invite some indians to join your next Thanksgiving. (or do you aleady?)
(I blame spotify failing me today and causing me to think about shit on my bike ride instead of just humming along)