This Thanksgiving remember that the actual story of how Thanksgiving became a holiday is because of one singular old lady writing to the White House for 11 years that there needed to be a day to celebrate coming together as a family in a time of constant war and separation, particularly the middle of the Civil War, until Abraham Lincoln finally got tired of her and gave her the day.

The myth that we usually believe is the “First Thanksgiving,” that being the “congregation” between indigenous people and the Pilgrims of the Mayflower, was only because the leader of the said indigenous group knew the mutual language due to earlier slavery. The Puritans refused to eat with “savage Indians.” They stole their cropping techniques, and then slaughtered them all via internal warfare and intentional smallpox infestation.

The son of the chief had his head put on a pike that stayed in the town square for 50 years afterwards.

So the moral of the story that you should remember for this Thanksgiving.

1. The legacy of colonization of baked into every single aspect of American culture.

2. Try to respect the 566 indigenous nations in the United States that are left because they are deprived of rights, American citizenship, and any living history.

3. Consistently writing to your local office and federal government might actually make a change.

4. The only way to unite a country going through conflict, especially America, is to make your voice heard, and make sure those in power no the necessity of overcoming prejudice.

5. Turkey was not native to the section of America where the Pilgrims landed.
Happy Thanksgiving, my people