DID YOU KNOW?
".... Native Americans and their allies have gathered at noon
on Thanksgiving
Day at Cole's
Hill in Plymouth
to commemorate
a National Day
of Mourning
since 1970."
were already living in what's now the United States when the Europeans arrived, the settlers’ arrival wasn’t the beginning of a new world, but the end of one.
For that reason, Native Americans and their allies have gathered at noon on Thanksgiving Day at Cole's Hill in Plymouth to commemorate a National Day of Mourning since 1970. Participants in the National Day of Mourning honor Native ancestors and the struggles of Native and Indigenous peoples to survive here today. It’s a day dedicated to remembrance, spiritual connection and protest against the racism, genocide and oppression that Native Americans have suffered and continue to suffer today. This year, spare a thought for the Native people before tucking in to your turkey, and remember the real history of Thanksgiving.
Native peoples and the colonizers. Other battles raged in Virginia, Connecticut, New York and elsewhere and the Native American population has never really recovered. For the thriving societies that
Massasoit wearing the red horseman's coat that he was given as a gift in the spring of 1621 by Edward Winslow and Stephen Hopkins on behalf of the Plymouth colonists. Painting courtesy of Ruth DeWilde-Major.
ON DECEMBER 19, 1675, NATIVE American and Colonial forces clashed in a battle that would go down in history as the “Great Swamp Fight.” Today, this monument pays tribute to the
brave soldiers on both sides of the battle.