'What’s wrong with Thanksgiving is not so much the celebration as it is the American mythology that surrounds it. It allows for a certain whitewashed fantasy that erases the devastating impacts of colonization that persist to this day.'
The Pilgrims at the center of Thanksgiving lore were not friends to the Natives; they actively worked to exterminate them. President Abraham Lincoln, who made Thanksgiving a federal holiday, also
. “Looking at Thanksgiving from a real historic [lens], rather than a mythical historic perspective, is huge,” Michael Roberts tellsand explains that even the familiar symbols of the holiday are inaccurate and conflates Native identities: Those paper headdresses that adorn Thanksgiving decorations, versions of which kids make in school, “are cultural images of Plains Indians, and not the Wampanoag that the Pilgrims actually spent time with,” he says.
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