Native American storyteller Perry Ground, a Turtle Clan member of the Onondaga Nation, starts his "rethinking" of Thanksgiving with a quiz. Ground, who has been telling stories for 25 years in an ...

“The pilgrims and Indians shared a meal of their harvest and they were friends.” Every year for Thanksgiving, her grandmother would host a dinner. Now, Fagan spends the holiday with ...

Shannon Power is a Greek-Australian reporter, but now calls London home. They have worked as across three continents in print, newspapers and broadcast, specializing in entertainment, politics ...

Today, Native Americans regard Thanksgiving with mixed emotions. "Native Americans eat and watch football just like other Americans," said Shawna Shale, a Quinault woman living in Fergus Falls ...

It’s Thanksgiving once again. That day, every year, when we are all gluttonous to celebrate the fact that ‘Pilgrims and Indians’ had a harmonious meal — at least that is how it has been ...

Thanksgiving is considered by some to be a “national day of mourning” Like Columbus Day, the holiday is viewed by many to be a celebration of the conquest of Native Americans by colonists ...

But what’s forgotten or ignored in the Thanksgiving narrative in most textbooks is this: The pilgrims could only settle at Plymouth because thousands of Native Americans, including Wampanoags, had ...

For many Americans, the image of Thanksgiving is one of supposed unity: the gathering of “Pilgrims and Indians” in a harmonious feast. But this version obscures the harsh truth, one steeped in ...

While in school, most children are taught that Thanksgiving represents a feast celebrating Christopher Columbus' discovery of America. More specifically, after an unidentified tribe of Native ...

Some Americans cling to a romanticized version of Thanksgiving, in which the Pilgrims invited Native Americans to share a bountiful meal together. That's not entirely true, say historians ...

Thanksgiving, a holiday rooted in joining two different cultures in thanks, is just weeks away. While the legend says Native Americans joined Pilgrims who immigrated to America from England ...